Walter Besant quotes

“The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.”
-- Walter Besant

#Success Quotes #Men Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”
-- Walter Besant

#Years Quotes #London Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.”
-- Walter Besant

Source : Besant, Walter (2014). “Dorothy Forster”, p.73, Read Books Ltd

#Letting Go Quotes #Blood Quotes #Vampire Quotes

“Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.”
-- Walter Besant

#Honesty Quotes #Truth Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.”
-- Walter Besant

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”
-- Walter Besant

Source : "Today" (London, England : 1893), Volumes 16-17, 1897.

#Years Quotes #London Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension”

“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

“Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.”