Great Truths Quotes

“If a man’s breakfast is rendered an unpleasant memory of some item of food that has outlived its usefulness, he does not forswear eating.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“Ingratitude, the most popular sin of humanity, is forgetfulness of the heart. It is the revelation of the emptiness of pretended loyalty.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“He who does not regard his appointments, carelessly breaking them or ignoring them, is the thoughtless thief of another’s time. It reveals selfishness, carelessness, and lax business morals. It is untrue to the simplest justice of life.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“Truth is the rock foundation of every great character. It is loyalty to the right as we see it ; it is courageous living of our lives in harmony with our ideals ; it is always – power.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“Why does the world usually make wealth the criterion of success, and riches the synonym of attainment? Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself ; it means “how he has bettered himself,” not “how he has bettered his fortune?” The great question of life is not “What have I ?” but “What am I?”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“He who sacrifices his ideals, truth and character, for mere money or position is weighing his conscience in one pan of a scale against a bag of gold in the other. He is loyal to what he finds the heavier, that which he desires the more, the money. But this is not truth. Truth is the heart’s loyalty to abstract right, made manifest in concrete instances.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“Men who split hairs with their conscience, who mislead others by deft, shrewd phrasing, which may be true in letter yet lying in spirit and designedly uttered to produce a false impression, are untruthful in the most cowardly way. Such men would cheat even in the game of solitaire. Like murderers, they forgive themselves their crime in congratulating themselves on the cleverness of their alibi.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths

“If we know the truth and and do not live it, our life is a lie.”
― William George Jordan, Great Truths