Henry Van Dyke Quotes

Best Quotes by Henry Van Dyke (Top 10)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
Henry Van Dyke
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry Van Dyke
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Henry Van Dyke
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Henry Van Dyke
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Henry Van Dyke
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Henry Van Dyke
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest....
Henry Van Dyke
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
Henry Van Dyke
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
Henry Van Dyke