William E. Woodward Quotes:

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.

source: - "George Washington: The Image and the Man".

Topics: Self Confidence, Men, Life Is

A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

Topics: Dog, Horse, Emotional

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

Topics: Christian, Military, Men

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

source: - William E. Woodward (1946). “George Washington: The Image and the Man”

Topics: Civilization, Vanity, Doubt