W. L. George Quotes
When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.
So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.
There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
Yes we'll rally round the flag boys we'll rally once again Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom We will rally from the hillside we'll gather from the plain Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!
If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt for which we strive and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.
I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
