John Bartholomew Gough Quotes

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

You must make your own opportunities.

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.