6 Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes on Self

Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes on self

8. 'Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities.'

10. 'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'

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

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18. 'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'

23. 'Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world- making the most of one's best. '

32. 'Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.'