
We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
- Topic: Belief, Work
- Location: Redstone
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
