Charles Buxton Quotes

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

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

  Charles Buxton

  Life, Winning, Focus

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.243

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

  Charles Buxton

  Effort, Facts

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

  Charles Buxton

  Success, Positive Attitude, Enthusiasm

  "Notes of Thought". Book by Charles Buxton and John Llewelyn Davies, 1873.

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• You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

  Charles Buxton

  Duty, Pleasant, Fulfilled

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• 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

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• A successful career has been full of blunders.

  Charles Buxton

  Successful, Careers, Blunders

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.277

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• 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

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• Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

  Charles Buxton

  Bitterness, Bitter, Feels

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• You cannot win without sacrifice.

  Charles Buxton

  Sacrifice, Winning, Without Sacrifice

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• A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

  Charles Buxton

  Men, Poison, Victim

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.243

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.210

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• To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

  Charles Buxton

  Advice, Pleasure, Pleasant

  Charles Buxton (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• Proverbs are potted wisdom.

  Charles Buxton

  Quotations

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

  Charles Buxton

  Desire, Movement, Something Better

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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

  Charles Buxton

  Men, Self, Criticism

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.126

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• 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

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.287

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• Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

  Charles Buxton

  Son, Pounds, Capitalism

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.285

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• 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

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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