Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes

United States, Minister
September 2, 1858 – February, 25, 1929.

Newell Dwight Hillis was a Congregationalist minister, writer, and philosopher from Brooklyn. He served as pastor of the historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, and he oversaw the completion of the last major renovation of the church.

Also known as Writer, Philosopher

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis
- Happiness
- Duty
- Medicine

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

Newell Dwight Hillis
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Newell Dwight Hillis
- World
- College
- Happiness
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

Newell Dwight Hillis
- Story
- Friendship
- Chain
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

Newell Dwight Hillis
- Choice
- Wealth
- Ease
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

Newell Dwight Hillis
- Mind
- Literature
- Seer
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Newell Dwight Hillis
- Success
- Failure
- Moment