Let this list of 13 quotations by the English theologian Benjamin Jowett lead you to an inspirational day. Recharge yourself with motivational retreat, explain, clergy sayings, and satisfy your hunger for a better life.
What are the best Benjamin Jowett quotes?
We've made this hand-picked collection of quotes to show you what is Benjamin Jowett truly willing to say and leave for generations. Whether an inspirational quote or a motivational message about giving your best, we can all benefit from the wisdom, captured within these words.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world;
especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness;
it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it dkne and let them howl.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
