Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get them.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Fear, Anxiety
The gist of New Year’s Day is: Try again.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Holidays
Efficiency is doing things-not wishing you could do them, dreaming about them, or wondering if you can do them.
—Frank Hall Crane
Nobody’s problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Acceptance, Reality, Opportunities, Realistic Expectations
Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them, either. They keep you.
—Frank Hall Crane
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
—Frank Hall Crane
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Decisions
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Responsibility, Character
The most essential element in any home is God.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Home
It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Praise
If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Learning
The mind is like a river; upon its waters thoughts float through in a constant procession every conscious moment. You stand on a bridge over it and can stop and turn back any thought that comes along. The art of contentment is to let no thought pass that is going to disturb you.
—Frank Hall Crane
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, or you don’t want it intensely enough.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Success
The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Compassion, Kindness, Service
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Attention, Books, Reading
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them, either. They keep you.
—Frank Hall Crane
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Education
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
—Frank Hall Crane
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Doubt, Trust, Faith
Every book salesman is an advance agent for culture and for better citizenship, for education and for the spread of intelligence.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Reading
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
—Frank Hall Crane
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Every generation a new crop of fools comes on. They think they can beat the orderly universe. They conceive themselves to be more clever than the eternal laws. They snatch goods from Nature’s store, and run. And one by one they all come back to Nature’s counter, and pay—pay in tears, in agony, in despair; pay as fools before them have paid. Nature keeps books pitilessly. Your credit with her is good, but she collects; there is no land you can flee to escape her bailiffs. She never forgets; she sees to it that you pay her every cent you owe, with interest.
—Frank Hall Crane
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