More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. '
  2. 'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'
  3. '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.'
  4. '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 …
  5. 'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'
  6. Our power is not so much in us as through us.
  7. 'He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characterist…
  8. 'Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.'

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