Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Men, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Giving Up, Men

• There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Giving, Purpose

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

• When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Work, Men, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Office, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

• Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Giving

• If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, College, Men

• I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Giving, May, Youth

• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Education, Mistake, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Organization, Two

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.133, tredition

• I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Acceptance, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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