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Henry S. Haskins - From the Acceptance category:
Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Accomplishment category:
Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Activity category:
Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Aging category:
Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Aging category:
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Ambition category:
Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Amusement category:
The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Anxiety category:
Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Attitude category:
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Audience category:
For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Beauty category:
Ugly facts are a challenge to beautify them. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Business category:
The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Competition category:
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd instinct. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Confidence category:
We have to serve ourselves for many years before we gain our own confidence. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Construction category:
Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Contentment category:
Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Copying category:
The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Courage category:
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Criticism category:
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Danger category:
Dive where the water is deep. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Deception category:
It is the honest lies we tell - statements factually correct and essentially deceiving - which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Desire category:
We demand about everything of ourselves but discrimination in what we demand. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Disappointment category:
Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Discipline category:
It is when we start to discipline our mind that we discover how many undisclosed relationships it already has. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Dissatisfaction category:
Discontent follows ambition like a shadow. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Dreams category:
We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Education category:
It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Effort category:
Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Emotion category:
How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Faith category:
Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Finishing category:
When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone! (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Freedom category:
Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Gender category:
If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Gratitude category:
When you think of the silly things people have said to you which have stopped you from saying the same silly things, you simply can't do justice to your gratitude. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Hope category:
Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Humanity category:
The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Humility category:
Proud souls in the true sense are never humbled by adversity. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Ideas category:
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Illusion category:
Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Imagination category:
If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Imitation category:
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Importance category:
What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Impossibilities category:
An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Individuality category:
The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Intellect category:
Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Knowledge category:
It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Leadership category:
Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Life category:
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Life category:
Our portion of life is the whole thing for us. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Light category:
The darkness around us might somewhat light up if we would first practice using the light we have on the place we are. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Limitations category:
Many of our intentions die after we have put their harness on. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Masters category:
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Mediocrity category:
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Mediocrity category:
Normal is the wrong name often used for average. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Memory category:
... memories that never ride anything but sound waves. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Mistakes category:
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Optimism category:
Make a party over your negative thoughts, assuring them that they are the safest, the most cautious, company you have ever kept. At first they will swallow your flattery, but then suddenly, stricken with shame, and knowing themselves for the impostors they are, out and off they will go. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Originality category:
It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with 'What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?' (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Perfection category:
Man is sadly retarded by allowable imperfections. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Power category:
Acting as your own sovereign power, grant yourself oblivion for past offences. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Profession category:
The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Prosperity category:
If you obtain provision for yourself of spiritual abundance, don't throw the surplus at people's heads; feed it back into your own industry as capital for the production of more abundance. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Questions category:
Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Research category:
When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject matter as quickly as possible. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Silence category:
Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Silence category:
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Standards category:
If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Strength category:
There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Success category:
When a man's success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Success category:
It is getting what we started to get, not the thing got, which spells success. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Symbols category:
Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Teaching category:
The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Thought category:
Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Time category:
Only occasional hours meet our full requirements. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Tradition category:
Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Travel category:
He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Truth category:
Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Truth category:
Some live lies who won't tell them; some tell lies who won't live them. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Uniqueness category:
We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Unknowns category:
There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Winning category:
The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Wisdom category:
There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom. (Henry S. Haskins)
Henry S. Haskins - From the Words category:
Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language. (Henry S. Haskins)
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