36 Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock

One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic – something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother’s birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father’s house.