Men Quotes by J. G. Holland

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

— J. G. Holland

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

— J. G. Holland

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

— J. G. Holland

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

— J. G. Holland

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

— J. G. Holland

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

— J. G. Holland

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

— J. G. Holland

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

— J. G. Holland

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as…

— J. G. Holland

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a…

— J. G. Holland

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central…

— J. G. Holland

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

— J. G. Holland

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

— J. G. Holland

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

— J. G. Holland

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

— J. G. Holland

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

— J. G. Holland

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and…

— J. G. Holland

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect…

— J. G. Holland

The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name,…

— J. G. Holland

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is…

— J. G. Holland

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do…

— J. G. Holland

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes…

— J. G. Holland

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,…

— J. G. Holland

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and…

— J. G. Holland

We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder…

— J. G. Holland

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life…

— J. G. Holland

I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I…

— J. G. Holland

My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed…

— J. G. Holland

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

— J. G. Holland

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

— J. G. Holland

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's…

— J. G. Holland

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God…

— J. G. Holland

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can…

— J. G. Holland

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

— J. G. Holland

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

— J. G. Holland

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

— J. G. Holland

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

— J. G. Holland

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…

— J. G. Holland

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

— J. G. Holland