23 Quotations by William Lyon Phelps
- 1. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admir ...
- 2. A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the b ...
- 3. Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of l ...
- 4. God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, bu ...
- 5. I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations be ...
- 6. I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
- 7. If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual wo ...
- 8. In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
- 9. In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Method ...
- 10. One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one tak ...
- 11. One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
- 12. Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happine ...
- 13. Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happine ...
- 14. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happine ...
- 15. The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is t ...
- 16. The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
- 17. The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- 18. The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief i ...
- 19. The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisu ...
- 20. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps Quotes by Power Quotations
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