David Seabury (1885–1960) was an American psychologist, author, and lecturer. While practicing as a consulting psychologist in New York City, he published fifteen books. He founded the Centralist School of Psychology, was the founder and president of the David Seabury School of Psychology, and was president of the Seabury University of Adult Education. In 1923 he married feminist journalist Florence Guy Woolston.
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Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
—David Seabury
Topics: Humor
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, Selfishness, Wishes
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: Courage, Failures, Mistakes
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
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
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
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
—David Seabury
Topics: Selfishness
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
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
—David Seabury
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: Desire, Desires
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
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
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
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