Quotes
Authors
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
"The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel." --
Source : "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#Life Quotes
#Real Quotes
#Character Quotes
“And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.”
Source : 'Down among the Dead Men' (c.1700)
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”
“If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.”
“I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.”
“If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.”
“Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.”
“A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.”
Source : Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”
“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a principle.”
