Newell Dwight Hillis quotes
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“Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.”
-- Newell Dwight HillisSource : Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”
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“Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.”
-- Newell Dwight HillisSource : Newell Dwight Hillis (2012). “The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service”, p.42, tredition
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“Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.”
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“Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.”
-- Newell Dwight HillisSource : "The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's Troubles".
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“Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision....”
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“Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.”
-- Newell Dwight HillisSource : "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".
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“Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.”
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“Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.”
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“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
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“My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.”
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“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
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Source : "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.
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