01UndatedThis question then is ours—are we doing our part in the growth of the race? In the current of life are we moving forward? Do our years mark milestones in humanity’s struggle towards perfection? Is the God within us so much more unrolled, when our development has reached its highest point? Can we transmit to our children a better heritage of brain and soul than our fathers left to us? Has the race through us gained some little in the direction of the law of love? If we have done our part in this struggle our lives have not been in vain.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
02UndatedWisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
03UndatedThe time will come when the civilized man will feel that the rights of every living creature on the earth are as sacred as his own. Anything short of this cannot be perfect civilization.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
04UndatedWhoever will prosper in any line of life must save his own time and do his own thinking. He must spend neither time nor money which he has not earned.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
05UndatedA child, however educated, is still untaught if by his teaching we have not emphasized his individual character, if we have not strengthened his will and its guide and guardian, the mind.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
06UndatedThe higher education of women means more for the future than all conceivable legislative reforms. Its influence does not stop with the home.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
07UndatedI have wished to teach a single lesson, true alike to all men—the lesson of the saving of time.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
08UndatedIt is our part in life to work with all our strength toward the realization of ideal humanity, to add one more link to the chain which joins the man-brute of the past, through the man of the present, to the man of the future. The man who is likest Him, we have chosen for our ideal.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
09UndatedWe are encompassed about by the forces that make for righteousness. All power we possess, or seem to possess, comes from our accord with these forces. There is no lasting force, except the power of God.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
10UndatedIt is not poverty that helps a man; it is the effort by which he throws off the yoke of poverty that enlarges the powers.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
11UndatedFor a woman to be wise and at the same time womanly, is to wield a tremendous influence which may be felt for good in the lives of generations to come.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
12In print by 1911 ADToday is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole, we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is our time. This we know, it is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward weakness and misery.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
13UndatedBe a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
16UndatedThe world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
17UndatedWhen a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!David Starr Jordan / quote ↗
