If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. John Lancaster Spalding More Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding More Quotes From John Lancaster Spalding The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is John Lancaster Spalding bravery courage inspirational Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. John Lancaster Spalding philosophical motivational philosophy Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind. John Lancaster Spalding opinion belief mind When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. John Lancaster Spalding Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed. John Lancaster Spalding atmosphere succeed believe We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. John Lancaster Spalding calamity disturbed What we love to do we find time to do. John Lancaster Spalding time-management time Your faith is what you believe, not what you know. John Lancaster Spalding faith knows believe As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. John Lancaster Spalding paradise sad memories Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. John Lancaster Spalding family mom mother If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad. John Lancaster Spalding fate flower trouble We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul. John Lancaster Spalding passion believe ideas Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. John Lancaster Spalding and-love would-be thinking If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many. John Lancaster Spalding wise art thinking Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends. John Lancaster Spalding livelihood suspicious sincerity The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability. John Lancaster Spalding ability able desire The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth. John Lancaster Spalding imagine thinking If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject. John Lancaster Spalding strong personality interesting Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word. John Lancaster Spalding altruism barbarism love-is When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many. John Lancaster Spalding and-love approval knows
