James Truslow Adams

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

— James Truslow Adams

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

— James Truslow Adams

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

— James Truslow Adams

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

— James Truslow Adams

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

— James Truslow Adams

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

— James Truslow Adams

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

— James Truslow Adams

The American dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.

— James Truslow Adams