Quote

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

J. G. Holland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. G. Holland
Reputation
Outside
Lives
Character
Men

More quotes by J. G. Holland

Image
It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
J. G. Holland
Image
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes for God himself sits behind them.
J. G. Holland
Image
The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
J. G. Holland
Image
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
J. G. Holland
Image
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
J. G. Holland
Image
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
J. G. Holland
Image
There are no twin souls in God's universe.
J. G. Holland
Image
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
J. G. Holland
Image
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
J. G. Holland
Image
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
J. G. Holland
Image
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
J. G. Holland
Image
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
J. G. Holland
Image
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
J. G. Holland
Image
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
J. G. Holland
Image
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland
Image
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
J. G. Holland
Image
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
J. G. Holland
Image
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
J. G. Holland
Image
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
J. G. Holland