God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission. J. G. Holland More Quotes by J. G. Holland More Quotes From J. G. Holland There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. J. G. Holland patiencepositiveinspirational If you want learning, you must work for it. J. G. Holland learningifswant The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. J. G. Holland lovemenworld The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. J. G. Holland soul-and-bodyspirituallife There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel. J. G. Holland dustflowerthinking Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. J. G. Holland criticismblowmen It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows. J. G. Holland usemenknowledge Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. J. G. Holland powermenscience I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety. J. G. Holland rocksnamesmen Life always take on the character of its motive. J. G. Holland motivecharacterlife God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does. J. G. Holland godsciencebelieve The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. J. G. Holland libertysoulfirsts There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her. J. G. Holland fightingblowcourage Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. J. G. Holland eternityrunninglife The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age. J. G. Holland reallovelife Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. J. G. Holland discoverymenscience The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us. J. G. Holland homeriversheaven Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. J. G. Holland growthlawhome In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. J. G. Holland errorsmistakemen Ideals are the world's masters. J. G. Holland militaryrealityworld
