13 Quotes & Sayings By Walter Colton

Walter Colton was born in 1879 in Chattanooga, TN. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1905. After graduation he took a position as a Lieutenant in the U.S Read more

Army Signal Corps, which was responsible for communications at the beginning of World War I. In 1915 he was transferred to the Philippines to organize a communications system among the islands of the archipelago, but while there he became interested in aeronautics and by 1917 had become head of the Ordnance Department of the Signal Corps. He was later transferred to Washington where he wrote daily training manuals for bombardiers and other aerial personnel that were used during World War I.

In 1928 he applied for a patent on an airplane tracking device that was later used by both army and navy to detect enemy submarines during World War II. This invention earned him over $3 million from royalties. In 1930, Colton’s book "Mind Power" was published and went on to sell more than a million copies worldwide under different titles including “The Will Power Secret,” “The Power of Positive Thinking,” “The Power of Your Mind” and “The Secret of Mental Power” In 1937 Colton founded the International College of Mental Science which later became known as The American College of Longevity in Brentwood, TN.

Colton died in Brentwood on June 24, 1972 after being ill for several months from cardiovascular complications caused by a series of heart attacks suffered while attending an international conference on mental health in Mexico City five years earlier.

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. Walter Colton
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Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones. Walter Colton
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If you would know and not be known live in a city. Walter Colton
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If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. Walter Colton
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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. Walter Colton
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it. Walter Colton
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Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery. Walter Colton
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Brutes leave ingratitude to man. Walter Colton
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Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive. Walter Colton
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. Walter Colton
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Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it. Walter Colton
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Walter Colton