Charles Horton Cooley Famous Quotes
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton Cooley Quotations
"To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed."
Phyllis Mcginley
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.
John Pierpoint Morgan
"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it."
Albert Schweitzer
A will finds a way.
Orison Swett Marden
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
Horace
Motherhood All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain
"If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it."
Alan B Watts
"Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
Alan Stewart Paton
"If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of."
Alfred Lord Tennyson