Quote #14

'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characterist…
  2. '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.'
  3. 'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'
  4. 'It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. '
  5. 'He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.'
  6. 'Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.'
  7. 'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'
  8. 'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'

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