Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Inspirational
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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