Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
John Lancaster Spalding
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
Author
Biographer
Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
Many
Labouring
Things
Possess
Possession
Lose
Loses
Enjoy
Power
Best
More quotes by John Lancaster Spalding
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
John Lancaster Spalding
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
John Lancaster Spalding
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
John Lancaster Spalding
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
John Lancaster Spalding
If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
John Lancaster Spalding
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
John Lancaster Spalding
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
John Lancaster Spalding
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
John Lancaster Spalding
Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
John Lancaster Spalding
A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
John Lancaster Spalding
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
John Lancaster Spalding
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
John Lancaster Spalding
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
John Lancaster Spalding
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
John Lancaster Spalding
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
John Lancaster Spalding
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
John Lancaster Spalding
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
