Thomas Carlyle famous quotes

Endurance is patience concentrated.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Patience #Perseverance

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Death #Men #Two

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Ambition #Boredom

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

#Dance #World #March

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Hope #Fitness

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Courage #Strong

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Advice #Acting #Doe

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Character #Men #Would Be

No pressure, no diamonds.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Good Life #Inspiration #Failure

Every noble work is at first impossible.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Positive #Stay Strong #Inspirational Life

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Music #Heart #Looks

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Love #Inspirational #Anniversary

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Angel #Musical

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Minorities #Opinion #Starting

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Change #Men #Path

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Believe #Men #Effort

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Confidence #Self Esteem #Adventure

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.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Jesus #Atheist #Fun

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Believe #Iron

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Courage #Men

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Men #Heroism #Divine

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Book #Library #These Days

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Men #Faults #Conscious

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Business #Men #Water

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Time #Silence #Speech

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Earth #Bitter #Poor

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Men #Doe #Accidents

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Kings #World #Persuasion

He that can work is born to be king of something.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Kings #Work #Birth

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Motivational #Happiness #Work

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Writing #Labor #Idleness

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Spiritual #Parent #Spirituality

My books are friends that never fail me.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Book #Failing

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Lying #Men #Muhammad

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Work #Men #Firsts

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Men

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

#Memories #Lying #Heart

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Fall #Rocks #Focus

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Leadership #Worry #Trouble

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Heart #Wind #Voice

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Heart #Men #Clothes

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Editors #Able #World

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Moving #Heart #Ties

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Heart #Men #Evil

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

#Inspiring #Music #Angel

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Loyalty #True Friend #Wall

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Lying #World #Opinion

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Lying #Book #Past

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Prove

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

#Strength #Happiness #Power

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Ocean #Loss #Technology

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Work #Men #Shoes

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Birthday #Time #Sorrow

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Adversity #Men #Prosperity

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Leadership #Being Happy #Honesty

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Men #Healthy #Mind

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Diversity #Symbols #Universe

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Memories #Character #Writing

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Motivational #Leadership #Life And Love

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Time #Lying #Silence

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Inspirational #Men #Goal

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Culture #Process #Capability

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
-- Thomas Carlyle

#Gun #Civilization #Religion