Henry Drummond Quotations

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.