Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Much
Closed
Way
Corners
World
Access
Generations
Longer
Present
Unparalleled
Pretty
Globe
Past
Globes
More quotes by Edgar Guest
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
Edgar Guest
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Edgar Guest
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
Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
Edgar Guest
Don't give up, what've you do eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
Edgar Guest
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
Edgar Guest
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
Edgar Guest
Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
Edgar Guest
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Edgar Guest
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
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Edgar Guest
He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar Guest
Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.
Edgar Guest
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
Edgar Guest
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Edgar Guest
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
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
Edgar Guest
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
It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
Edgar Guest
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