Quote #16
'It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. '
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Harry Emerson Fosdick
- '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.'
- 'Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.'
- 'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'
- 'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'
- 'He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characterist…
- 'No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light …
- 'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'
- Our power is not so much in us as through us.