Andrew Carnegie Quotes

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

The Carnegie Medal is given throughout the U.S. and Canada to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. With this second announcement of 2020 recipients, a total of 10,168 Carnegie Medals have been awarded since the Pittsburgh-based Fund’s inception in 1904.

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.

tall oaks from little acorns grow.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert

Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance

الانسان الذي يمكنه إتقان الصبر... يمكنه إتقان أي شئ آخر

East or West Home is best.

"Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. "To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom," says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it."