William Lyon Phelps Quotes

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• I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, Believe, College

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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• The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Thinking, People

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• The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Jesus, Important Events, Stories

  William Lyon Phelps (1925). “Human Nature and the Gospel”

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• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Sunset, Firsts, Succeed

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• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Love, Happiness, Music

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• One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Intellectual, Secret, Curiosity

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• Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Marriage, Failure

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Marriage”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Together, Art Is

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.115, Read Books Ltd

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• The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Cat, Men, Relaxation

  William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc

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• Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Real, Real Happiness

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• God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Stars, Ocean, Son

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Wall, Lying, Real

  "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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• The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Thinking, Interesting

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• If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Running, Rain, World

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• PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Beautiful, Wall, Healing

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• Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

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  Motivational, Real, Spring

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• A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Cat, Water, Body

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• A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Hope, Respect, Students

  William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”

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• To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Friendship, Dog, Men

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• In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Business, Three, Assumption

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• How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Education, Wall, Order

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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