Best Quotes by Henry Van Dyke (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
  3. Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
  4. 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.
  5. Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
  6. 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.
  7. Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
  8. There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
  9. 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.
  10. Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

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