Walter Chrysler's Quotes

I like to build things. I like to do things.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

A comprehended god is no god.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.