Woodrow Wilson Quotes about Giving

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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Woodrow Wilson

Spiritual, Men, Giving

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

Woodrow Wilson

Men, Giving, Purpose

Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

Work, Men, Giving

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

Woodrow Wilson

Men, Office, Giving

Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Woodrow Wilson

Education, Mistake, Giving

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

Woodrow Wilson

Men, Thinking, Giving

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Woodrow Wilson

Giving, May, Youth