Al Spalding Quotes
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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.
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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.
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
