Ken Carter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

  • Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

  • Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

  • The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  • Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

  • The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

  • Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  • I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.