J. G. Holland famous quotes

03-28-2025

Joys divided are increased.
-- J. G. Holland

#Joy
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
-- J. G. Holland

#Success #God #Work
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
-- J. G. Holland

#Love #Positive #Heartbreak
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
-- J. G. Holland

#Responsibility #Hands #Ethics
Calmness is the cradle of power.
-- J. G. Holland

#Inspirational #Power #Cradle
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

#Men #People #Secret
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
-- J. G. Holland

#Pride #Progress #Way
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
-- J. G. Holland

#Wrestling #Achievement #Waiting
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
-- J. G. Holland

#Endure #Grows
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
-- J. G. Holland

#Twins #Twin Sister #Eternity
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
-- J. G. Holland

#Patience #Patient #Godlike
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
-- J. G. Holland

#Children #Play #Healthy
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
-- J. G. Holland

#Men #Degrees #Sin
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
-- J. G. Holland

#Prayer #Play #May
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
-- J. G. Holland

#Pace #Want #Wealth
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
-- J. G. Holland

#Character #Power #Two
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
-- J. G. Holland

#Exercise #Power #Men
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
-- J. G. Holland

#Country #Home #Men
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.
-- J. G. Holland

#Men #Giving #Kind
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
-- J. G. Holland

#Home
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
-- J. G. Holland

#Blessed #Men #Found
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
-- J. G. Holland

#Christian #Sacrifice #Civilization
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
-- J. G. Holland

#Vices
Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
-- J. G. Holland

#Anchors #Wealth #Trustworthy
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
-- J. G. Holland

#Work #Persistence
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
-- J. G. Holland

#Work #Men #Records
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
-- J. G. Holland

#Art #Form
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
-- J. G. Holland

#Women #Eye #Vision
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
-- J. G. Holland

#Women #Character #Love Is

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