Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes (15 Quotes)

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

Decisions of our will are often directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions. If we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we are apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if your wings are being developed.

Good enough never is. You can't get to second base keeping one foot on first. Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes. Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Kee.

Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

You will never be able to discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

There are people who make things happen, and there are those who watch things happen. And there are those who wonder what happened.

Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.