Andrew Carnegie Quotes

Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one’s eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was “to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

It is all very well for you, gentlemen, who work one day in the week and are masters of your time the other six during which you can view the beauties of Nature all very well for you- but I think it shameful that you should endeavor to shut out from the toiling masses of that is calculated to entertain and instruct them during the only day which you well know they have at their disposal.

It may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all had they been able to take it with them. The memories of such cannot be held in grateful remembrance, for there is no grace in their gifts.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.

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.

"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."

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

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

Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.” I