• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Self Help Daily

Inspirational and Self Help Blog with a Save the World Complex...

  • Home
    • Tour Self Help Daily
    • Self Help Daily’s Archives
    • Privacy
      • Affiliate Disclosure
  • Contact
  • Inspirational Quotes
  • Self Help
    • Positive Thought
    • Health
    • Mental Fitness
    • Relationships
    • Self Growth
    • How to Be Happy
  • Book Reviews
You are here: Home / F.D. Van Amburgh Quotes

F.D. Van Amburgh Quotes

Accomplishment Quote Graphic

The majority of these quotes are from one of my personal literary treasures: F.D. Van Amburgh’s 1923 book, “The Mental Spark Plug.”

Remember, you cannot have ability unless you do what Lincoln did – study and prepare yourself. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The most interesting income you will receive from doing good work is the increased ability to do better work. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Depend less upon your good intentions and more upon your ability to carry through what is expected of you. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Ambition may have to advertise, but ability advertises itself. More individual effort on your part, and the results will be radioed. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Ambition incites us to judge ourselves by what we want to do. Ability instructs us to depend largely upon what the world will say of our work. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Contrary as it may seem, most people have more ability for their work than they have ambition to want to do it. Proof: Comparatively few people are as successful as they should be. – F.D. Van Amburgh

All men have limitations, but not one man in one thousand approaches his real ability to do. And this truth alone is enough to encourage any man to go forward with renewed, reinforced purpose. – F.D. Van Amburgh

If you possess marked ability, it will show in your work. Capable people do not need to talk about themselves. Make your service so good that it will be your press agent. – F.D. Van Amburgh More Quotes about Ability

The greatest human achievement is to be useful. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Until you attempt more, you will not accomplish more. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The patience to wait and the willingness to work is the rock foundation of all lasting achievement. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The penalty of one achievement is the need to achieve again, or the fate of being forgotten or of having your one achievement disparaged. – F.D. Van Amburgh

There are so many avenues to achievement that a man can make a reputation for results in almost any path if he will work like “all get out. ” – F.D. Van Amburgh

One achievement leads to another accomplishment, one failure results in another half-try; so you see how imperative it is to stick to the thing you are trying to do until you do it. – F.D. Van Amburgh More Quotes about Achievement

Tenacity is the thing that tells whether you are on your way up or on your way out. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Largely depending on how a man treats his circle of acquaintance, is the story of a man’s success or the tragedy of his failure. – F.D. Van Amburgh More Quotes about Friends

Prosperity deceives, adversity instructs. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Adversity is not the worst thing in life. Adversity is the turn in the road. It is not the end of the trail, unless – unless you give up. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Prosperity makes millionaires and adversity makes men. Every lash of adversity is a lesson, every sting a veritable schoolmaster in the class of learning. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Adversity is often a forerunner of prosperity. One day in the school of adversity will teach a man more than a full term in the deceit of fortune. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Most of us can see the bright side of a calamity if we know others are suffering too. This sounds cynical; but it’s human, and you know human nature is human. – F.D. Van Amburgh

One might go to a seven-year course in the old school of Aristotle, with all his philosophy, but such a schooling cannot compare with one short season in the University of Adversity. – F.D. Van Amburgh More Quotes about Adversity

To recommend adversity to everybody would be like giving a patent medicine to everybody. The same dose will not always fit. Some nerves would be shattered after taking medicine from the same glass snout. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Man does not want advice, he seeks substantiation. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Some of the worst men give the best advice. They know. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The man that is sick is always offering advice to the well. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Ambition may have to advertise, but ability advertises itself. More individual effort on your part, and the results will be radioed. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Ambition incites us to judge ourselves by what we want to do. Ability instructs us to depend largely upon what the world will say of our work. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Contrary as it may seem, most people have more ability for their work than they have ambition to want to do it. Proof: Comparatively few people are as successful as they should be. – F.D. Van Amburgh

All men have limitations, but not one man in one thousand approaches his real ability to do. And this truth alone is enough to encourage any man to go forward with renewed, reinforced purpose. – F.D. Van Amburgh

If you possess marked ability, it will show in your work. Capable people do not need to talk about themselves. Make your service so good that it will be your press agent. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The greatest human achievement is to be useful. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Until you attempt more, you will not accomplish more. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The patience to wait and the willingness to work is the rock foundation of all lasting achievement. – F.D. Van Amburgh

The penalty of one achievement is the need to achieve again, or the fate of being forgotten or of having your one achievement disparaged. – F.D. Van Amburgh

There are so many avenues to achievement that a man can make a reputation for results in almost any path if he will work like “all get out. ” – F.D. Van Amburgh

One achievement leads to another accomplishment, one failure results in another half-try; so you see how imperative it is to stick to the thing you are trying to do until you do it. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Tenacity is the thing that tells whether you are on your way up or on your way out. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Largely depending on how a man treats his circle of acquaintance, is the story of a man’s success or the tragedy of his failure. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Prosperity deceives, adversity instructs. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Adversity is not the worst thing in life. Adversity is the turn in the road. It is not the end of the trail, unless – unless you give up. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Prosperity makes millionaires and adversity makes men. Every lash of adversity is a lesson, every sting a veritable schoolmaster in the class of learning. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Adversity is often a forerunner of prosperity. One day in the school of adversity will teach a man more than a full term in the deceit of fortune. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Most of us can see the bright side of a calamity if we know others are suffering too. This sounds cynical; but it’s human, and you know human nature is human. – F.D. Van Amburgh

One might go to a seven-year course in the old school of Aristotle, with all his philosophy, but such a schooling cannot compare with one short season in the University of Adversity. – F.D. Van Amburgh

To recommend adversity to everybody would be like giving a patent medicine to everybody. The same dose will not always fit. Some nerves would be shattered after taking medicine from the same glass snout. – F.D. Van Amburgh

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Self Help Blog

Cat on Pine Mountain , Kentucky

Welcome to Self Help Daily, a blog devoted to helping you get the most from life by getting the most from yourself!

Read the story behind the picture above in How to Live in the Moment.

Positive Affirmation Cards


Positive Affirmation Cards (Amazon)

Contact Joi

My name is Joi (“Joy”)! I am the animal lover behind Self Help Daily.

To contact me, please do so through e-mail (joitsigers @ gmail.com). Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you! ~ Joi

Self Help Blog Updates

  • Finding More Time for Reading in a Ridiculously Busy Day!
  • The – Almost – Lost Art of Greeting Cards: A History of Sentimentality 
  • Top Tips to Avoid Catching Winter Bugs
  • Remember How Free it Felt to Be a Kid? Yeah… Let’s Tap Back into That!
  • Always Have an Attitude of Gratitude ~ Sterling K. Brown
  • Managing Bladder Inconsistency in the Elderly
  • John Wooden Quote About Optimism
  • WhatIf Foods and Their Planet-Positive Mindset: In Our Spotlight for Vegan Month!

Featured Quote Graphics

Don't Quit Quote Graphic

Dr. Seuss Quote About Being Who You Are

Booker T. Washington Quote About Hate

Wayne Dyer Quote About Karma

Quote About Habits

Footer

Inspirational Quotes

  • Abraham Lincoln Quotes
  • Billy Graham Quotes
  • Booker T. Washington Quotes
  • Dale Carnegie Quotes
  • Maya Angelou Quotes
  • Mark Twain Quotes
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
  • Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

More Inspirational Quotes

❖ Self Help Daily Updates



Overcoming Empty Nest Syndrome

One of the questions I hear the most from my readers is, "How can I cope with empty nest syndrome?" I'll try to deal with this sensitive subject as often as possible. If you have any suggestions, I hope you'll contribute to the conversations!

  • Coping With Empty Nest Syndrome
  • Don't Just Cope in an Empty Nest, Thrive!
  • How to Be Happy in an Empty Nest
  • Overcoming Empty Nest Syndrome
Copyright Self Help Daily 2023