Jane Addams Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

  Jane Addams

  Race, Failing, Possibility

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

• Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

  Jane Addams

  Serenity, Age, Dignity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.104, Courier Corporation

• We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

  Jane Addams

  Reality, Thinking, Judging

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

• To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

  Jane Addams

  Pride, Self, Effort

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.6, University of Illinois Press

• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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