15 Quotes by Harry Allen Overstreet

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.