131 Quotes by Tryon Edwards

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.