Margery Wilson Quotes

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To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.

Margery Wilson
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

Margery Wilson
No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

Margery Wilson
A diplomat... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it — or at least not be offended by it.

Margery Wilson
The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.

Margery Wilson
Time is a friend — perhaps the best one we shall ever have.... Time is a now — and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now.

Margery Wilson
Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it — while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

Margery Wilson
Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs — that is actually what they are — except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.

Margery Wilson
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

Margery Wilson
The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.

Margery Wilson
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display.

Margery Wilson
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

Margery Wilson
They're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.

Margery Wilson
Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.

Margery Wilson
Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.

Margery Wilson
You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.

Margery Wilson
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

Margery Wilson
Any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.

Margery Wilson