Edgar Guest
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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.Collection: Goal
If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.Collection: Chance
I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.Collection: Want
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.Collection: Littles
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Lying
Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.Collection: Children
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.Collection: Motivational
Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Flower
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.Collection: Friendship
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.Collection: Kindness
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.Collection: Would Be
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.Collection: Friendship
But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Risk
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.Collection: Way
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.Collection: Friendship
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.Collection: Toss
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.Collection: Dream
He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.Collection: Positive Thinking
The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.Collection: Military
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Done
All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.Collection: Love
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.Collection: Wisdom
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.Collection: Joy
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.Collection: Home
For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.Collection: Men
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clearCollection: Leadership
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.Collection: Real
It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it homeCollection: Home
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.Collection: Past
You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.Collection: Funny
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.Collection: Men
Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!Collection: Giving Up
Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.Collection: Determination
The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?Collection: Winning
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."Collection: Time
Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hitCollection: Giving Up