David Seabury Quotes

United States, Psychologist
1885 – April, 1, 1960.

David Seabury was an American psychologist, author, and lecturer. While practicing as a consulting psychologist in New York City, he published fifteen books. He founded the Centralist School of Psychology, was the founder and president of the David Seabury School of Psychology, and was president of the Seabury University of Adult Education. In 1923 he married feminist journalist Florence Guy Woolston.

Also known as Author, Lecturer

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

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- Good
- Art
- Character
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

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- Simple
- Thoughts

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

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- Work
- She
- Character
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

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- Work
Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

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- Life
- Control
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

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- True

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

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- Powerful
- Courage
- Enemy
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

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If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

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Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

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- Action
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

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- Action
- Wise
- Wishes
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

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- Wish