William George Jordan Quotes
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.
Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.
We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.