Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
—George Horace Lorimer
Topics: Principles
Writing is like religion. Every man who feels the call must work out his own salvation.
—George Horace Lorimer
Topics: Writing
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage—and that’s the same thing.
—George Horace Lorimer
Topics: Failure, Mistakes, Success, Courage, Failures
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
—George Horace Lorimer
Topics: Determination, Satisfaction, Discipline
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check once in awhile and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
—George Horace Lorimer
The daily newspaper sustains the same relation to the young writer as the hospital to the medical student.
—George Horace Lorimer
Topics: Journalism
Colleges don’t make fools, they only develop them.
—George Horace Lorimer
Topics: Foolishness, Fools
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