Best Quotes by David McCullough (Top 6)

  1. Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
  2. To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
  3. Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
  4. Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
  5. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
  6. The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.