Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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• A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Progress, Purpose

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• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Learning, Planning

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• The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Attractive, Drained

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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Leadership, Life And Love

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• Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consumerism, Determine, Overconsumption

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Psychology, Ideals, Impediments

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, World, Recognition

  "Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

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• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Education

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• 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

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.21

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• All great peoples are conservative.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Conservative

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.159, 北戴河出版

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• No person is important enough to make me angry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Important, Enough

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• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Lying, Duty

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

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• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Being Happy, Honesty

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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Sight

  1839 Chartism, ch.4.

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  Endurance is patience concentrated.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

  "One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step". Book by Randy L. Thurman, p. 81, en.wikiquote.org. July 3, 2012.

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• Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  School, Experience, Masters

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.60

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