We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Charles Horton CooleyThe most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
Charles Horton CooleyOur individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton CooleyThe passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
Charles Horton Cooley