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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• 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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• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Learning, Planning

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Attractive, Drained

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Degrees, All Things

  1843 Past and Present, bk.3, ch.2.

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• No person is important enough to make me angry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Important, Enough

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Being Happy, Honesty

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

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• A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Being Strong, Hope, Expectations

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• 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

  Atheist, Jesus, Fun

  In D. A. Wilson 'Carlyle at his Zenith' (1927) p. 238

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• A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Goal

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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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  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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• Without kindness there can be no true joy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Kindness, True Joy

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• One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Monsters, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.174

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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