138 Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

No man need stay the way he is.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.