David Viscott Quotes

• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Inspirational

• You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Person

• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Feel

• To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Natural

• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Affliction

• This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It’s up to you to find it, and you can.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expressed

• The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Believe, Faith

• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Entertaining

• No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think

• In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Fail

• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Courage

David Viscott (12)

Birth:	24th May, 1938
Death:	10th October, 1996
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businessman, Psychiatrist

About

David Viscott was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth, Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA.

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