Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, th…

- William George Jordan

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

- William George Jordan

No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it…

- William George Jordan

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates dispositi…

- William George Jordan

The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's fa…

- William George Jordan

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened mor…

- William George Jordan

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

- William George Jordan

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simpl…

- William George Jordan

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

- William George Jordan