Quotes About Life From George Washington

#1. How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these. - Author: George Washington Carver

#2. [It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. - Author: George Washington

#3. Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed. - Author: George Washington

#4. A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects. - Author: George Washington

#5. Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word ... direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land. - Author: George Washington

#6. I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. - Author: George Washington

#7. It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. - Author: George Washington

#8. If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens. - Author: George Washington

#9. I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me. - Author: George Washington Carver

#10. You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention ... - Author: George Washington

#11. Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter. - Author: George Washington

#12. Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life. - Author: Sarah Palin

#13. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world - Author: George Washington Carver

#14. There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. - Author: George Washington Carver

#15. To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows. - Author: George Washington

#16. You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person. - Author: Benjamin Walker

#17. [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character. - Author: George Washington

#18. Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. - Author: George Washington Carver

#19. The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Author: George Washington Burnap

#20. He establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. - Author: George Washington

#21. I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life. - Author: George Washington

#22. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths ... ? - Author: George Washington

#23. I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. - Author: George Washington

#24. The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind. - Author: George Washington

#25. Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results. - Author: George Washington Goethals

#26. All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day. - Author: George Washington Carver

#27. I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping. - Author: George Washington

#28. Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties - Author: George Washington

#29. I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction. - Author: George Washington

#30. We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime. - Author: George Washington

#31. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - Author: George Washington

#32. Soap is another article in great demand
the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army. - Author: George Washington

#33. How far you go in life depends on ... - Author: George Washington Carver