Charles Buxton famous quotes

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
-- Charles Buxton

#Time #Want

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-- Charles Buxton

#Life #Winning #Focus

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
-- Charles Buxton

#Success #Positive Attitude #Enthusiasm

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
-- Charles Buxton

#Duty #Pleasant #Fulfilled

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
-- Charles Buxton

#Effort #Facts

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
-- Charles Buxton

#Men #Poison #Bitter

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.
-- Charles Buxton

#Determination #Powerful #Differences

A successful career has been full of blunders.
-- Charles Buxton

#Successful #Careers #Blunders

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
-- Charles Buxton

#Pain #Failure #Mean

You cannot win without sacrifice.
-- Charles Buxton

#Sacrifice #Winning #Without Sacrifice

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
-- Charles Buxton

#Children #Block #Book

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
-- Charles Buxton

#Men #Insult #Injury

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
-- Charles Buxton

#Advice #Pleasure #Pleasant

Proverbs are potted wisdom.
-- Charles Buxton

#Quotations

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
-- Charles Buxton

#Men #Self #Criticism

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
-- Charles Buxton

#Party #Too Much #Companionship

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
-- Charles Buxton

#Desire #Movement #Something Better

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
-- Charles Buxton

#Inspirational #Sea Breeze #Water

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
-- Charles Buxton

#Procrastination #Indulge In #Done

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
-- Charles Buxton

#Son #Pounds #Capitalism

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.
-- Charles Buxton

#Mother #Brother #Father

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
-- Charles Buxton

#Cold #Truth Is #Reaching

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.
-- Charles Buxton

#Home #Irritation #Perfect