Edgar Guest Quotes

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.