36 Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; ’tis God’s gift.

This is my Father’s world: O let me ne’er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

Life is what we are alive to.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Don’t let the good things of life rob you of the best things!