Quote

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

Edgar Guest

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edgar Guest
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: August 20
Died: 1959
Died: August 5
Poet
Birmingham
West Midlands
Eddie Guest
Edgar A. Guest
Edgar Albert Guest
Walks
Hear
Rather
Success
Sermon
Tell
Sermons
Way
Merely
Walk
Motivational

More quotes by Edgar Guest

Image
Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
Edgar Guest
Image
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Edgar Guest
Image
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.
Edgar Guest
Image
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
Edgar Guest
Image
You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
Edgar Guest
Image
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.
Edgar Guest
Image
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Edgar Guest
Image
The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
Edgar Guest
Image
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.
Edgar Guest
Image
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Edgar Guest
Image
A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.
Edgar Guest
Image
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.
Edgar Guest
Image
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?
Edgar Guest
Image
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Edgar Guest
Image
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
Edgar Guest
Image
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
Edgar Guest
Image
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.
Edgar Guest
Image
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
Edgar Guest
Image
I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.
Edgar Guest
Image
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
Edgar Guest