110+ J. G. Holland Quotes On Education, Faith And Mors

J. G. Holland was an American novelist and poet who wrote during the 19th century. He was best known for his works such as The Story of Sevenoaks, The Marble Faun, and The Bay of Seven Islands. He was a major figure in the American literary scene during the mid-1800s and is remembered for his works that focused on the beauty of nature and the power of human relationships. Following is our collection on famous quotes by J. G. Holland on education, leadership, love.

Top 10 J. G. Holland Quotes

1. The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
2. God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
3. God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
4. A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
5. A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
6. Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
7. A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
8. Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
9. The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
10. God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

J. G. Holland Short Quotes

• Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
• Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
• The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
• Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
• Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
• Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
• Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
• Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
• Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

J. G. Holland Quotes About Love

The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life. — J. G. Holland

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience. — J. G. Holland

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!. — J. G. Holland

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age. — J. G. Holland

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it. — J. G. Holland

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best. — J. G. Holland

A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction. — J. G. Holland

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. — J. G. Holland

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence. — J. G. Holland

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. — J. G. Holland

J. G. Holland Quotes About Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started. — J. G. Holland

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be. — J. G. Holland

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life. — J. G. Holland

It is the life in literature that acts upon life. — J. G. Holland

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences. — J. G. Holland

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. — J. G. Holland

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins. — J. G. Holland

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world. — J. G. Holland

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. — J. G. Holland

J. G. Holland Quotes About Faith

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one. — J. G. Holland

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness. — J. G. Holland

God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die. — J. G. Holland

J. G. Holland Quotes About Inspiring

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. — J. G. Holland

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously. — J. G. Holland

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires. — J. G. Holland

J. G. Holland Quotes About Built

The temple of art is built in words. — J. G. Holland

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses. — J. G. Holland

This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery! — J. G. Holland

J. G. Holland Quotes About Work

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. — J. G. Holland

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such. — J. G. Holland

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny. — J. G. Holland

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone. — J. G. Holland

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J. G. Holland

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them. — J. G. Holland

We work and that is godlike. — J. G. Holland

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life. — J. G. Holland

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it. — J. G. Holland

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility. — J. G. Holland

J. G. Holland Famous Quotes And Sayings

What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx! — J. G. Holland

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. — J. G. Holland

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — J. G. Holland

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance. — J. G. Holland

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J. G. Holland

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her. — J. G. Holland

God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission. — J. G. Holland

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern. — J. G. Holland

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system. — J. G. Holland

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. — J. G. Holland

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. — J. G. Holland

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. — J. G. Holland

My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode. — J. G. Holland

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. — J. G. Holland

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified. — J. G. Holland

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. — J. G. Holland

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care. — J. G. Holland

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. — J. G. Holland

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer. — J. G. Holland

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed. — J. G. Holland

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. — J. G. Holland

Ideals are the world's masters. — J. G. Holland

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. — J. G. Holland

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify. — J. G. Holland

I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety. — J. G. Holland

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. — J. G. Holland

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed. — J. G. Holland

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle. — J. G. Holland

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. — J. G. Holland

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing. — J. G. Holland

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose. — J. G. Holland

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected. — J. G. Holland

Life always take on the character of its motive. — J. G. Holland

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. — J. G. Holland

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J. G. Holland

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law. — J. G. Holland

A mind grows by what it feeds on. — J. G. Holland

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort. — J. G. Holland

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction. — J. G. Holland

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me. — J. G. Holland

Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. — J. G. Holland

My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious. — J. G. Holland

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. — J. G. Holland

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. — J. G. Holland

No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants. — J. G. Holland

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. — J. G. Holland

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does. — J. G. Holland

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. — J. G. Holland

To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known. — J. G. Holland

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood. — J. G. Holland

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty. — J. G. Holland

Wants keep pace with wealth always. — J. G. Holland

"Work and wait", "work and wait" is what God says to us in creation. — J. G. Holland

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine. — J. G. Holland

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view. — J. G. Holland

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. — J. G. Holland

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. — J. G. Holland

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. — J. G. Holland

Life Lessons by J. G. Holland

1. J. G. Holland's work emphasizes the importance of perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity. He often wrote about characters facing difficult situations and how they were able to overcome them.
2. His work also highlights the power of hope, faith, and love in overcoming obstacles. He wrote about how these qualities can help people to find strength and courage in the face of adversity.
3. Lastly, Holland's work reminds us that no matter how difficult life can be, there is always hope and a chance to make things better. He encourages us to never give up and to always strive for our dreams.