John Bartholomew Gough Quotes & Sayings

#1. Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

#2. Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

John Bartholomew Gough

#3. It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

#4. If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

John Bartholomew Gough

#5. A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Bartholomew Gough

#6. It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

John Bartholomew Gough

#7. A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

John Bartholomew Gough

#8. One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?

John Bartholomew Gough