Edgar Guest Quotes

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• You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

  Edgar Guest

  Goal, Choices, Mind

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• If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

  Edgar Guest

  Chance, Defeated, Accomplish

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• No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

  Edgar Guest

  Lying, Dust, Matter

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• The lectures you deliver
  may be wise and true,
  But I'd rather get my lessons
  by observing what you do.
  I may not understand
  the high advise you like to give,
  But there's no misunderstanding
  how you act and how you live.

  Edgar Guest

  Wise, Giving, Lessons

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

  Edgar Guest

  Want, Fit, Knows

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Myself”

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• Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, Winning, Soul

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Figure It Out”

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• Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

  Edgar Guest

  Littles, Faults, Let Me

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Spring, Joy

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Faults, Cures

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• I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

  Edgar Guest

  Motivational, Success, Way

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

  Edgar Guest

  Flower, Men, Garden

  19 Copy quote

• I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

  Edgar Guest

  Friendship, Mean, Funny Friend

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

  Edgar Guest

  Kindness, Deeds, Forty

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Lonely, Spring

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.

  Edgar Guest

  Friendship, Sweet, Joy

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• Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

  Edgar Guest

  Friendship, Simple, Needs

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

  Edgar Guest

  Risk, Done, Coats

  Edgar Albert Guest (1921*). “Poems: A Souvenir”

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• Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

  Edgar Guest

  Would Be, Done, Faces

  Edgar Albert Guest (1921*). “Poems: A Souvenir”

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• But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

  Edgar Guest

  Hope, Work Out, Spite

  Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

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• Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

  Edgar Guest

  Life, Sweet, Cocktails

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• There is an education of the mind
  Which all require and parents only start.
  But there is training of a nobler kind
  And that's the education of the heart.
  Lessons that are most difficult to give
  Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

  Edgar Guest

  Education, Heart, Giving

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• Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

  Edgar Guest

  Way, Wasting Time, Wealth

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.

  Edgar Guest

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Done

  Edgar Albert Guest (1919). “The Path to Home ; When Day is Done”

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• You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

  Edgar Guest

  Toss, Persons

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• The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, He Man, Creeds

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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