Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

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

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.

While each of us … has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

War’s tragedy is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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.