KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Henry Van Dyke Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Henry Van Dyke

Showing 11-20 of 25 Quotes by Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

~Henry Van Dyke

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Henry Van Dyke on Amazon

Related Authors

Maya Angelou
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
E. E. Cummings

Popular Authors

Aeschylus Johnny Cash Confucius Frederick Douglass Napoleon Hill Maria Montessori Alexander Pope Sam Walton

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1915 - Thomas Merton

1919 - Jackie Robinson

1543 - Ieyasu Tokugawa

1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu

1752 - Gouverneur Morris

1784 - Bernard Barton

1797 - Franz Schubert

1857 - James Huneker

1868 - Theodore William Richards

1872 - Zane Grey

Birthdays on January 31st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Attitude Change History Humor Independence Knowledge Love Patience