Eloquence is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done.
—John Bartholomew Gough
Topics: Eloquence
If you want to succeed in the world you 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 coming.
—John Bartholomew Gough
Topics: Self-reliance, Opportunities, Confidence, Success, Opportunity
If you want to succeed in the world you 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 coming. 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.
—John Bartholomew Gough
Topics: Opportunity, Success
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.
—John Bartholomew Gough
Topics: Courage, Character
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup, if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
—John Bartholomew Gough
Topics: Drinking
Temperance is the lawful gratification of a natural and healthy appetite.
—John Bartholomew Gough
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Sebastian S. Kresge American Businessman
- John J. McCloy American Diplomat
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton American Social Reformer
- George Holyoake English Social Reformer
- Benjamin Jowett British Theologian
- John Neal American Author, Critic
- Frances Willard American Temperance Campaigner
- Alice Stone Blackwell American Suffragist
- Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin French Industrialist, Socialist
- Carrie Chapman Catt American Suffragist
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