"Our business in life is not to get……" — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves."
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33 Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Maltbie Davenport Babcock has 33 quotes on this site.
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It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be…
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Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
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If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.
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Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine.…
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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
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Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
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This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is…
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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its…
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Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a…
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Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads…
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Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is…
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The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his…
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make…
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Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
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