Truslow Adams Quotes

#1. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

James Truslow Adams

#2. The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it.

Sarah Macdonald

#3. If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#4. the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

#5. The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams

#6. It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

James Truslow Adams

#7. Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

James Truslow Adams

#8. Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

James Truslow Adams

#9. We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

James Truslow Adams

#10. Men exist for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

James Truslow Adams

#12. I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Jill Abramson

#13. Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.

Kemi Sogunle

#14. The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

#15. A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Warren G. Bennis