The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide – look wider still.
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
Leave it better than you found it.
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: “What would Christ have done?” Then do it-as nearly as you can.
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.