Quote #12

'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'

More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.'
  2. 'He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characterist…
  3. 'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'
  4. 'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'
  5. 'God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.'
  6. 'I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.'
  7. 'Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with pers…
  8. 'It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. '

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