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 Image
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 Image
Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
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 Image
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
