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Top 25 Henry Drummond Quotes (2025 Update)

Henry Drummond Quote: “The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.”

1. “The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

2. “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.”

3. “To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.”

4. “Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.”

5. “Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.”

6. “Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon out equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we do the least of all.”

7. “He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon out equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we do the least of all.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.”

8. “Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”

9. “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. Greatest Thing in the World.”

10. “If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. Greatest Thing in the World.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered.”

11. “I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Talent develops itself in solitude – the talent of prayer, of faith, of meditation, of seeing the unseen; character grows in the stream of the world’s life. That chiefly is where men are to learn love.”

12. “Talent develops itself in solitude – the talent of prayer, of faith, of meditation, of seeing the unseen; character grows in the stream of the world’s life. That chiefly is where men are to learn love.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.”

13. “Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.”

— Henry Drummond

Henry Drummond Quote: “You know the meaning of the word “gentleman.” It means a gentle man – a man who does things gently, with love. That is the whole art and mystery of it. The gentle man cannot in the nature of things do an ungentle, an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature, cannot do anything else. “Love doth not behave itself unseemly.”

14. “You know the meaning of the word “gentleman.” It means a gentle man – a man who does things gently, with love. That is the whole art and mystery of it. The gentle man cannot in the nature of things do an ungentle, an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature, cannot do anything else. “Love doth not behave itself unseemly.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.”

15. “On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.”

16. “It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Why do we want to live for ever? Because we hope that tomorrow will bring us someone we can love. Because we want to live another day with the person we love beside us. Because we want to find someone who deserves our Love and who, in turn, will know how to love us as we deserve to be loved. That is why, when a man has no one to love him, he feels a great desire to die. As long as he has friends, people who love him and whom he loves too, he will live. Because to live is to love.”

17. “Why do we want to live for ever? Because we hope that tomorrow will bring us someone we can love. Because we want to live another day with the person we love beside us. Because we want to find someone who deserves our Love and who, in turn, will know how to love us as we deserve to be loved. That is why, when a man has no one to love him, he feels a great desire to die. As long as he has friends, people who love him and whom he loves too, he will live. Because to live is to love.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “You cannot give anything more important than the Love reflected in your own life. That is the one true universal language, which allows us to speak Chinese or the dialects of India. For if, one day, you go to those places, the silent eloquence of Love will mean that you will be understood by everyone.”

18. “You cannot give anything more important than the Love reflected in your own life. That is the one true universal language, which allows us to speak Chinese or the dialects of India. For if, one day, you go to those places, the silent eloquence of Love will mean that you will be understood by everyone.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Courtesy is Love in little things.”

19. “Courtesy is Love in little things.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”

20. “He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “The man who has no opinion of himself at all can never be hurt if others do not acknowledge him. Hence, be meek. He who is without expectation cannot fret if nothing comes to him. It is self-evident that these things are so. The lowly man and the meek man are really above all other men, above all other things.”

21. “The man who has no opinion of himself at all can never be hurt if others do not acknowledge him. Hence, be meek. He who is without expectation cannot fret if nothing comes to him. It is self-evident that these things are so. The lowly man and the meek man are really above all other men, above all other things.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love for ever is to live for ever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with love We want to live for ever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do you want to live tomorrow? It is because there is some one who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back. There is no other reason why we should live on than that we love and are beloved.”

22. “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love for ever is to live for ever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with love We want to live for ever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do you want to live tomorrow? It is because there is some one who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back. There is no other reason why we should live on than that we love and are beloved.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “It is a distinct fact by itself, which we can hold and examine separately, that on purely natural principles the soul that is left to itself unwatched, uncultivated, unredeemed, must fall away into death by its own nature.”

23. “It is a distinct fact by itself, which we can hold and examine separately, that on purely natural principles the soul that is left to itself unwatched, uncultivated, unredeemed, must fall away into death by its own nature.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Under the right conditions it is as natural for character to become beautiful as for a flower; and if on God’s earth there is not some machinery for effecting it, the supreme gift to the world has been forgotten. This is simply what man was made for. With Browning: “I say that Man was made to grow, not stop.”

24. “Under the right conditions it is as natural for character to become beautiful as for a flower; and if on God’s earth there is not some machinery for effecting it, the supreme gift to the world has been forgotten. This is simply what man was made for. With Browning: “I say that Man was made to grow, not stop.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal development.”

25. “Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal development.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.”

26. “Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to lay down your life, that simple charm, Love, and your life-work must succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is not worth while going if you take anything less.”

27. “Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to lay down your life, that simple charm, Love, and your life-work must succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is not worth while going if you take anything less.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed, anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it.”

28. “A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed, anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it.”

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Henry Drummond Quote: “Patience “Love suffereth long.” Kindness “And is kind.” Generosity “Love envieth not.” Humility “Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.” Courtesy “Doth not behave itself unseemly.” Unselfishness “Seeketh not its own.” Good temper “Is not provoked.” Guilelessness “Taketh not account of evil.” Sincerity “Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.”

29. “Patience “Love suffereth long.” Kindness “And is kind.” Generosity “Love envieth not.” Humility “Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.” Courtesy “Doth not behave itself unseemly.” Unselfishness “Seeketh not its own.” Good temper “Is not provoked.” Guilelessness “Taketh not account of evil.” Sincerity “Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.”

— Henry Drummond

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