Josiah Gilbert Holland
17 quotes.
Quotes by Josiah Gilbert Holland
- A noble deed is a step toward God.
- Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
- Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
- Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised.
- Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.
- God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest.
- It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up according to God's original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
- It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
- Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
- One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.
- Repose is the cradle of power.
- Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
- The heart is wiser than the intellect.
- The man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.
- There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
- There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
- Wherever we see a great human life in progress, in the production of notable results, we may always know that there is something within it which drives it, —a motive-power.