Paul Harris American Athlete Quotations (TOP 24)

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.