Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Newell Dwight Hillis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a writer Newell Dwight Hillis.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

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.

Writer | September 2, 1858 - February 25, 1929

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Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

Newell Dwight Hillis

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

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

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

Newell Dwight Hillis

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

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

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

Newell Dwight Hillis

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