“The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share
“The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die.… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
