The Quotable A.C.: Impulse 71

“You have made a start, and there is no finish — it goes on forever” — Letter to Charles Taylor, first Hero Fund president, May 31, 1905
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“You have made a start, and there is no finish — it goes on forever” — Letter to Charles Taylor, first Hero Fund president, May 31, 1905
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Let us pity those who haven’t ancestors of whom they can be proud, dukes or duchesses though they be. — An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, 1899
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“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body, can be moved from the shade into …
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My heart is in the work.
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We live in a heroic age. Not seldom are we thrilled by deeds of heroism where men or women are injured or lose their lives in attempting to preserve or …
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Nowadays, as I sit in my office, I am positioned under Carnegie’s portrait, and cannot help but reflect, with some awe, on the responsibility of following in the footsteps of …
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The Hero Fund is to become the recognized agency, watching, applauding, and supporting where support is needed, heroic action wherever displayed and by whomever displayed — White or Black, Male …
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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No action more heroic than that of doctors and nurses volunteering their services in the case of an epidemic. — 1904 Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Deed of Trust.
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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. — 1908 address before a graduating class in New York.
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Andrew Carnegie, left, and Louise Whitfield Carnegie on a city street in 1910. We should all prefer to start low that we should rise than to begin high that we …
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No expectation in which I have ever indulged … no air-castle which I have ever inflated, no dream which I have ever dreamed … equals what has been accomplished in …
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It is my privilege to shake hands with those heroes … and to present to them the awards of the Hero Fund, assuring them that the victories of war which …
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Some critics thot[sic] I proposed to stimulate heroism, but now nothing I’ve done is so popular. It was time the Heroes of Peace had recognition. — From a private letter …
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There are a few great souls who can rise to the height of alleviating others to do for them what they would like to do for others. Are you one …
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It is always well to remember that there are giants in our own day, too. — Triumphant Democracy, 1886 Return to imPULSE index. See PDF of this issue.
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“We have got to show young men that there are just as great battles to be fought in peace-time as in war-time and just as much heroism demanded, just as …
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“Peace wins her way not by force; her appeal is to the reason and the conscience of man.” —Andrew Carnegie, University of St. Andrews address, Oct. 17, 1905 Return to …
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“We are in the presence of universal law and should bow our heads in silence and obey the Judge within, asking nothing, fearing nothing, just doing our duty right along, …