Edwin Markham Quotes

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

Education is the development of power and ideal.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Every person can reach a full life.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.