Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry View this quote
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it. George Edward Woodberry
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. George Edward Woodberry
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. George Edward Woodberry
If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. George Edward Woodberry
Old times’ never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better. George Edward Woodberry
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. George Edward Woodberry
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. George Edward Woodberry
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. George Edward Woodberry
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. George Edward Woodberry
American poet and literary critic
May 12th, 1855 - January 2nd, 1930
