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Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Inspirational, Education, Teacher
"A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".

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.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Friendship, Leader, Brave

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Heart, Learning, Intelligence

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 Hillis
Book, Giving, Mind
Newell Dwight Hillis (2012). “The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service”, p.42, tredition

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Fear, Failure, Events
Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Men, Choices, Ease

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.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Leadership, Self, Dust

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Happiness, Medicine, Worry
"The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's Troubles".

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