Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Maltbie Davenport Babcock (August 3, 1858 – May 18, 1901) was a noted American clergyman and writer of the 19th century. He authored the familiar hymn, This is My Father's World, among others.
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.”
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us”
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.”
Maltbie Davenport Babcock