Quotes: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
0To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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