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William E. Woodward Quotes

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

William E. Woodward
Self Confidence, Men, Life Is
"George Washington: The Image and the Man".

A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

William E. Woodward
Dog, Horse, Emotional

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

William E. Woodward
Christian, Military, Men

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

William E. Woodward
Vanity, Civilization, Doubt
William E. Woodward (1946). “George Washington: The Image and the Man”

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