Edgar Guest famous quotes

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
-- Edgar Guest

#Friendship #Mean #Funny Friend

Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
-- Edgar Guest

#Children #Spring #Joy

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
-- Edgar Guest

#Goal #Choices #Mind

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
-- Edgar Guest

#Motivational #Success #Way

He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
-- Edgar Guest

#Positive Thinking #Thinking #Done

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.
-- Edgar Guest

#New Year #Eye #Years

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
-- Edgar Guest

#Men #He Man #Creeds

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.
-- Edgar Guest

#Winning #Men #Soul

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
-- Edgar Guest

#Love #Faults #Cures

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
-- Edgar Guest

#Being Yourself #Thinking #Deeds

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
-- Edgar Guest

#Joy #Sorrow #Despair

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
-- Edgar Guest

#Pie #Lists #Cherries

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.
-- Edgar Guest

#Giving Up #Winter #Doctors

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.
-- Edgar Guest

#Simple #People #Everyday

The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
-- Edgar Guest

#Wise #Giving #May

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day
-- Edgar Guest

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
-- Edgar Guest

#Leadership #Confusing #Example

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
-- Edgar Guest

#Home #December #Tact

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.
-- Edgar Guest

#Nature #Bird #Care

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.
-- Edgar Guest

#Family #Sweet #Humble

It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.
-- Edgar Guest

#Goal #Rose #Secret

A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.
-- Edgar Guest

#Dream #Real #Men

When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!
-- Edgar Guest

#Feet #Trying #Dodge

Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
-- Edgar Guest

#Way #Wasting Time #Wealth

So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.
-- Edgar Guest

#Dream #Struggle #Men

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.
-- Edgar Guest

#Love #Laughing #Doe

Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.
-- Edgar Guest

#Life #Sweet #Cocktails

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.
-- Edgar Guest

#Wish #Earth #Want

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
-- Edgar Guest

#Happiness #Men #Light

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.
-- Edgar Guest

#Lying #Dust #Matter

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.
-- Edgar Guest

#Past #Generations #World

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
-- Edgar Guest

#Risk #Done #Coats

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
-- Edgar Guest

#Shopping #World

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
-- Edgar Guest

#Needs #Action

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
-- Edgar Guest

#Friendship #Simple #Needs

Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
-- Edgar Guest

#Giving Up #Fighting

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.
-- Edgar Guest

#Song #Prayer #Fun

If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown for pleasure, Don't sit by your hearth and grumble, don't let mind and spirit harden. If it's thrills of joy you wish for get to work and plant a garden! If it's drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you'll get it You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, Plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing.
-- Edgar Guest

#Summer #Lonely #Drama

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
-- Edgar Guest

#Funny Life #Ends

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
-- Edgar Guest

#Men #Age #Three

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
-- Edgar Guest

#Hope #Work Out #Spite

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
-- Edgar Guest

#Inspirational #Heart #Night

The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.
-- Edgar Guest

#Flower #Men #Garden

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
-- Edgar Guest

#Want #Fit

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.
-- Edgar Guest

#Christmas #Laughter #Children

The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best.
-- Edgar Guest

#Military #Men #Tests

And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.
-- Edgar Guest

#Military #Winning #Faces

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.
-- Edgar Guest

#Determination #Swings #Ends

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."
-- Edgar Guest

#Time #Men #Miracle

Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.
-- Edgar Guest

#Real #Believe #Greatness

Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
-- Edgar Guest

#Giving Up #Eye

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.
-- Edgar Guest

#Done #Coats #Firsts

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
-- Edgar Guest

#Eye #Looks #Want

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
-- Edgar Guest

#Home #House

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends....
-- Edgar Guest

#Friendship #Sweet #Joy

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.
-- Edgar Guest

#Adversity #Clothes #Despair

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
-- Edgar Guest

#Littles #Faults #Let Me

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
-- Edgar Guest

#Kindness #Deeds #Forty

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.
-- Edgar Guest

#Would Be #Done #Faces