James Keller Quotes on People (4 Quotes)

A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question 'What is wrong with me.'

One of the big surprises of the 1946 opening session of the UN General Assembly in New York was a forthright statement by Abayomi Cassell, the delegate from Liberia 'Every single human creature is the object of Gods interest and care and there will be no chance for lasting peace so long as one shred of injustice exists on the globe. 'I believe that each time ... one group of people or one nation takes advantage of the other, retribution follows either from within or from without for that breach of the perfect law of God as well as those of mankind, which are products of the Divine within man'

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the athletic phenomenon of all time, won the British women's golf tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before 'Oh, shes an automatic champion, a natural athlete.' When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband 'My husband always praises me to other people,' she said, 'Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face.'