Quotes by George E. Woodberry

“The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith”

“Old times never come back and I suppose its just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and thats better.”

“Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?”

“Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphys First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.”

“To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.”

“Education has really one basic factor, a sine qua non-you must want it”

“If you cant have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a place to live”

“Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth”

“The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes”

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Old times never come back and I suppose its just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and thats better.