Search results
- A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. Thomas Carlyle. Inspirational, Life, Success.
- The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. Thomas Carlyle. Past, Attractive, Drained.
- For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. Thomas Carlyle. Adversity, Men, Prosperity.
- A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
- “What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” ― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History.
- “If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”
- “I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” ― Thomas Carlyle.
- “All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” ― Thomas Carlyle.
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
- He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Thomas Carlyle.
- A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. Thomas Carlyle.
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Thomas Carlyle.
98 Famous Quotes By Thomas Carlyle, The Author Of Sartor Resartus. Thomas Carlyle was a historian, philosopher, mathematician and writer from Scotland who went on to become one of the most influential thinkers and intellectuals of the 19th century.
- 1820s
- 1830s
- 1840s
- 1850s
- 1860s
[I am] fast becoming a patriot of the most decided stamp. Scornfully as I used to speak and think of Scotland in my hours of bitterness and irritation, I never fail to stand up manfully in defence...
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.A man's honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses: let him communicate this, if he is to communicate anything. There is, doubtless a time to speak, and a time to keep silence...It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.I must say, it [the Koran] is as toilsome reading as I ever undertook. A wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement; most crude, incondite; — ins...Every noble work is at first impossible.He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an agitated vehement manner: but the Premier resolutely beckon...
"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!Originality. 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. Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Perception.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. THOMAS CARLYLE, Past and Present. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God. THOMAS CARLYLE, letter to W. Graham, Mar. 29, 1844. A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Related searches
