Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harriswas an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
attitude self giving
We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
attitude believe men
Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.
attitude hate shadow
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
country attitude war
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
morning quickly stare turn
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder-and turn quickly to my typewriter.
educational responsibility parenting
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
money men cases
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
adulthood childhood line lost passed saying stopped subtle
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it.
almost complete knowing life ninety people percent strangers woe
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
somebody tempted
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
forgiveness forgiving loser
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
acceptance tolerance assuming
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
men likes failing
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
children independent omnipotence
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.