Quotes by David Starr Jordan

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part.

Nowhere is the sky so blue, the grass so green, the sunshine so bright, the shade so welcome, as right here, now, today.

There is no escape from life, but in death. The pleasures and the pains of life must be endured.

The problem of life is not to make life easier but to make men stronger.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it