Edward O. Sisson quotes and words of wisdom |  | "Our likes and dislikes exert a fateful influence upon both our own
happiness and our value to others. The ancients recognized this fully, but
modern education has long neglected it and is now slowly beginning to rub
its eyes and awake to the significance " | |  | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which
character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible
foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into
vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by
worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness; and that is the end
of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no
one else will respect us; this is rather a dangerous way to put it; let us
rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the
respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere
seeming. As Paulsen says, "It is vanity that desires first of all to be
seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something; whereas
proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and" then, if
possible, to have its worth recognized."" | | | Found in the topic Character.
| | | "GOOD is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between
good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character
makes destiny in the individual and in the race." | | | Found in the topic Opinion.
| | | "The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere
tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere
repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a
certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always
involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The
indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school
itself, but to the pressure of his father"s will; when that stimulus is
absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur." | | | Found in the topic Habit.
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Interesting Quotes
Go ahead, make my day.Dean Riesner, Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in "Sudden Impact", 1983
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley - English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)
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