Always take a job that is too big for yo... by Harry Emerson Fosdick | We Heart Quotes

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Always take a job that is too big for you.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Power Life

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

No man need stay the way he is.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Faces Nature Will Love

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

People

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship Men

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Mind World Life

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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