
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Context: The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty — who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause — can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands.
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160.
Speech at Pointe du Hoc on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/60684a.htm (6 June 1984)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Sec. 105
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Another thing wherein they shew their love of dominion, is, their desire to have things to be theirs: They would have propriety and possession, pleasing themselves with the power which that seems to give, and the right that they thereby have, to dispose of them as they please. He that has not observ's these two humours working very betimes in children, has taken little notice of their actions: And he who thinks that these two roots of almost all the injustice and contention that so disturb human life, are not early to be weeded out, and contrary habits introduc'd, neglects the proper season to lay the foundations of a good and worthy man.
“The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.”
as quoted in Barry GEM "Barry GEM" http://www.barry-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=102602&headline=Book%20on%20the%20trail%20of%20%20the%20Welsh%20Americans§ionIs=news&searchyear=2016 "Book on the trail of the Welsh Americans” (20 January 2016).