Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
-
-
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSON -
The world must be made safe for democracy.
WOODROW WILSON -
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSON -
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
WOODROW WILSON -
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
WOODROW WILSON -
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
WOODROW WILSON -
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
WOODROW WILSON -
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSON -
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSON -
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSON -
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSON -
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON -
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSON -
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSON -
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON