Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

If you don’t pay the price for success, you’ll pay the price for failure.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The man who does not see himself as part of the solution is part of the problem.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Don't waste time learning the tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

When you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s hard to know when you’re finished.

A dollar saved is ninety-five cents lost.

It is better to be square and know it than to be round and think it.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

An optimist is a man who looks forward to marriage and a pessimist is a married optimist.

The average man doesn’t know what he wants, but he’s pretty sure he hasn’t got it.

It’s always the fellow with a big front and a small back who never pays his bill.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Money won’t make you happy, but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

The man who doesn't learn from the past is destined to repeat it.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

The best way to get ahead is to find out where people are going and get there first.

The man who is wise, therefore, sees near and far, knows that life is short and death is long.

The world is full of people who are making a good living but a poor life.

A successful business man is one who makes money faster than his family can spend it.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

A man can't do his best when he's moping.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

If you’ve got the courage to stand your ground, and some grit to back it up, the world will make a path to your door.

Rich people think about money every hour of the day, while poor people think about money only when they don't have any.

The men who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

The fellow who does things that count doesn't usually stop to count them.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

The man who does not make a choice when the time comes is the man who is afraid to risk something, and in the end, he loses everything.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is good to know what you don’t want, but it is vital to know what you do.

The man who is always blowing the fuse of his own success may be sure that the world will be blown up without his help.

You can’t teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

It's all right to have a fortune, provided it is not a fortune that has you.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak everywhere else.

You’ve got to be a believer in yourself to be a success in this world.

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.

Back of ninety-nine out of one hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing but the unwillingness to do it.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Friendship isn't a big thing – it's a million little things.

There’s a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

You’ve got to learn to live with yourself before you can expect anyone else to.

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.