Wisdom from Russell Conwell: Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they

Wisdom from Russell Conwell:

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

There is wealth within the sound of your voice.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected, let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!