Russell H. Conwell Quotes

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

I am the greatest of all-time.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities. I have a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of our 1.25 billion people. There is a lot of capability. And I have a clear road-map to channel it.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.