Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees… — William George Jordan Copy Share
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations. — William George Jordan Copy Share
Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. — William George Jordan Copy Share
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. — William George Jordan Copy Share
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is — William George Jordan Copy Share
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks… — William George Jordan Copy Share
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the… — William George Jordan Copy Share
We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at… — William George Jordan Copy Share
Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude… — William George Jordan Copy Share
If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than… — William George Jordan Copy Share
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be… — William George Jordan Copy Share
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere… — William George Jordan Copy Share
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break… — William George Jordan Copy Share
