No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
—David Seabury
Topics: Selfishness
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
—David Seabury
Topics: Bravery, Courage, Weapon
Tell a man something is bad, and he’s not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it’s the better part of caution to listen.
—David Seabury
Topics: Stupidity
Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
—David Seabury
Topics: Advice
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it “ambivalence”: a collision between thought and feeling.
—David Seabury
Topics: Conflict
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
—David Seabury
Topics: Truth
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man’s bluff. You must corner the inner facts…
—David Seabury
Topics: Desires, Desire
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
—David Seabury
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
—David Seabury
Love… Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
—David Seabury
Topics: Love
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
—David Seabury
Topics: Destiny
Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
—David Seabury
Topics: Humor
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. “By getting up every time I fell down,” he answered.
—David Seabury
Topics: Mistakes, Courage, Failures
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
—David Seabury
Topics: Self-interest, Wishes, Selfishness
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
—David Seabury
Topics: Simplicity
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Karen Horney German Psychoanalyst
- Clementine Churchill British Humanitarian
- Charles E. Merrill American Banker
- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) Danish Novelist, Short-story Writer
- Hedda Hopper American Actress, Gossip Columnist
- Bernard F. Gimbel American Businessman
- Robert Collier American Self-Help Author
- Samuel M. Vauclain American Industrialist
- James S. McDonnell American Engineer
- Emily Post American Writer, Socialite
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