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Top 25 Eric Sevareid Quotes (2025 Update)

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper’s principle: “The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.””

1. “Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper’s principle: “The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.””

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.”

2. “Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.”

— Eric Sevareid

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Eric Sevareid Quote: “The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”

3. “The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”

4. “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “The major cause of problems are solutions.”

5. “The major cause of problems are solutions.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.”

6. “Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.”

7. “For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “I’m sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.”

8. “I’m sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.”

9. “It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”

10. “As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can’t be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don’t become suckers.”

11. “There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can’t be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don’t become suckers.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.”

12. “Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.”

13. “Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.”

14. “Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”

15. “Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “You can’t know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you’ve been.”

16. “You can’t know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you’ve been.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Saints are usually killed by their own people.”

17. “Saints are usually killed by their own people.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.”

18. “With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.”

19. “Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.”

20. “The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.”

21. “No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a ‘calling.’”

22. “The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a ‘calling.’”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener’s hands.”

23. “Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener’s hands.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.”

24. “People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “Never underestimate your listener’s intelligence, or overestimate you listener’s information.”

25. “Never underestimate your listener’s intelligence, or overestimate you listener’s information.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.”

26. “The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.”

— Eric Sevareid

Eric Sevareid Quote: “I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.”

27. “I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.”

— Eric Sevareid

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