An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
Make your life a mission—not an intermission.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Duty, One liners
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideas
There is no reward for finding fault.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Faults
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Problems, Leadership
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Time Management, Simplicity, Success
Reprove privately, praise publicly.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
—Arnold Glasow
One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Education
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: One liners, Anxiety, Fear
You’ll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Worry, Accepting The Worst
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Weight
It’s only by the hard blows of adverse fortune that character is tooled.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Character
Half a psychiatrist’s patients see him because they are married—the other half because they’re not.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Psychiatry
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
—Arnold Glasow
If you think you’re tops, you won’t do much climbing.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Achievements
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
—Arnold Glasow
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideas, Action
Don’t part company with your ideals. They are anchors in a storm.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideals
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Advice
All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
—Arnold Glasow
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Friends, Friendship
Statesmen stand out because politicians are as alike as peas.
—Arnold Glasow
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Football, Goals
Twist the dial during an election year and you hear someone twisting the truth.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Politics
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Goals, Success, Ambition, Enthusiasm
People are happier at Yuletime because they take the milk of human kindness out of the deep freeze.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Holidays
Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise
The world is full of thorns and thistles. It’s all in how you grasp them.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Trouble
Patriotism is collective responsibility.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Patriotism
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