Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by David Seabury

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist David Seabury.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

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.

American - Psychologist | 1885 - April 1, 1960

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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.

David Seabury

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.

David Seabury

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

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.

David Seabury

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

David Seabury

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

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

David Seabury

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

David Seabury

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

David Seabury

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

David Seabury

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

David Seabury

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

David Seabury