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Thomas Carlyle - From the Ability category:
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Achievement category:
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Activity category:
Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech; in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow, and precipitates itself therefrom. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Aging category:
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Aging category:
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Ambition category:
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Authority category:
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Beginning category:
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Belief category:
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Belief category:
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Blocks category:
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Books category:
No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Books category:
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Business category:
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Change category:
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Choices category:
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Communication category:
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Complaining category:
No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Confidence category:
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Conviction category:
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Courage category:
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Critics category:
No person is important enough to make me angry. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Culture category:
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Desire category:
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Difficulty category:
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Doubt category:
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Doubt category:
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Education category:
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Ego category:
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Fear category:
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Freedom category:
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Frustration category:
No pressure, no diamonds. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Genius category:
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Genius category:
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Goals category:
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Goodness category:
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Greatness category:
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Growth category:
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Happiness category:
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. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Happiness category:
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Hope category:
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Humanity category:
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Humour category:
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Humour category:
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Imagination category:
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Immortality category:
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Impossibilities category:
Every noble work is at first impossible. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Indolence category:
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Insight category:
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Intellect category:
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Journey category:
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Joy category:
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Knowledge category:
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Life category:
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Life category:
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Listening category:
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Love category:
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Magic category:
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Mediocrity category:
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Mistakes category:
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Music category:
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. In fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Music category:
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Mysteries category:
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Nature category:
Nature admits no lie. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Obscurity category:
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Originality category:
Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly quarrel with. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Perfection category:
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Perseverance category:
Endurance is patience concentrated. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Persistence category:
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. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Planning category:
Thought is the parent of the deed. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Poetry category:
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Politics category:
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Power category:
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Priorities category:
Do the duty which lies nearest to you. The second duty will then become clearer. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Prosperity category:
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Recognition category:
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Religion category:
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Responsibility category:
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Seeing category:
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Silence category:
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Sincerity category:
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Solitude category:
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Spirituality category:
The spiritual is the parent of the practical. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Success category:
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Suffering category:
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Symbols category:
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Theory category:
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Thought category:
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Tradition category:
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Universe category:
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Unknowns category:
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that! (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Vision category:
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Wisdom category:
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Wonder category:
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Words category:
Be not a slave of words. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Work category:
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Work category:
Work alone is noble. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Worth category:
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. (Thomas Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle - From the Writing category:
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. (Thomas Carlyle)
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