William George Jordan quote: "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscio...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself; it means how he has bettered himse...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while in...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and soci...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconsc...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
WILLIAM JORDAN

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through t...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remain...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

And see the confluence of dreamsThat clashed together in our night,One river born of many streamsRol...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages ...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress,...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Happiness lies first of all in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
WILLIAM LLOYD GEORGE

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritu...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interv...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principl...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principl...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of hu...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
WILLIAM LLOYD GEORGE

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great d...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a prin...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they&#...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the Germ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations fo...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those si...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

We ought to disarm Germany completely.
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
WILLIAM LLOYD GEORGE

A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, "I pour out my heart in songFor ...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst ...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or sp...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will en...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemie...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nat...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

A bird sang sweet and strong
In the top of the highest tree,
He said, "I pour out my heart i...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he ...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

O listen to the sounding seaThat beats on the remorseless shore,O listen! for that sound will beWhen...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandis...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supr...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. B...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Imagination is as good as many voyages -- and how much cheaper.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along ...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at educat...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in t...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are calle...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation
WILLIAM LLOYD GEORGE

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom wh...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
VERNON JORDAN

Terrorism is not new to black people.
VERNON JORDAN

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
VERNON JORDAN

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have lear...
VERNON JORDAN

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sit...
VERNON JORDAN

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
VERNON JORDAN

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time an...
VERNON JORDAN

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a pr...
VERNON JORDAN

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I kn...
VERNON JORDAN

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
VERNON JORDAN

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets pa...
VERNON JORDAN

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to lov...
JUNE JORDAN

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed ...
JUNE JORDAN

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journ...
EASON JORDAN

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
EASON JORDAN

We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har...
BARBARA JORDAN

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
BARBARA JORDAN

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. The...
BARBARA JORDAN

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this ...
BARBARA JORDAN

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but...
BARBARA JORDAN

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does no...
BARBARA JORDAN

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It'...
BARBARA JORDAN

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a...
BARBARA JORDAN

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
BARBARA JORDAN

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full con...
BARBARA JORDAN

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
BARBARA JORDAN

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our d...
BARBARA JORDAN

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
BARBARA JORDAN

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going ...
BARBARA JORDAN

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the...
BARBARA JORDAN

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
BARBARA JORDAN

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an exam...
BARBARA JORDAN

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different fr...
BARBARA JORDAN

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
BARBARA JORDAN

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the...
BARBARA JORDAN

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
ROBERT JORDAN

Cam Newton, his best throw is better than anybody's best throw. I'm gonna say that right off...
JORDAN RODGERS

I am a fan of Cam Newton. I love watching him play the game. He is an unbelievable talent: throwing ...
JORDAN RODGERS

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.
STANLEY JORDAN

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN

You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN

Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time ...
PENNY JORDAN

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of ...
PENNY JORDAN

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but aliv...
ROBERT JORDAN

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
ROBERT JORDAN

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s noth...
ROBERT JORDAN

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men for...
ROBERT JORDAN

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
ROBERT JORDAN

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as ...
JORDAN BELFORT

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as...
JORDAN BELFORT

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not ...
JUNE JORDAN

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke...
JUNE JORDAN

Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side...
JUNE JORDAN

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announce...
TENNEVA JORDAN

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they h...
DUPREE JORDAN

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the u...
JUNE JORDAN

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr...
JUNE JORDAN

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I never thought a role model should be negative.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're ...
JUNE JORDAN

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of ...
JUNE JORDAN

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But ob...
MICHAEL JORDAN

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trust...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-hear...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
MICHAEL JORDAN

If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king.
JORDAN GROOMS

If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with im...
JUNE JORDAN

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
BARBARA JORDAN

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the ti...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get ...
JORDAN SPIETH

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mist...
BARBARA JORDAN

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. No...
JORDAN KNIGHT

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defens...
JIM JORDAN

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American fil...
NEIL JORDAN

The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my ju...
JIM JORDAN

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, whi...
JIM JORDAN

When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to over...
JEFF JORDAN

Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'
JEFF JORDAN

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is require...
BARBARA JORDAN

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone whe...
MICHAEL JORDAN

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I'v...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big ...
JORDAN GAVARIS

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
MICHAEL JORDAN

First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.
JORDAN RODGERS

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

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William George Jordan

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

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