Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Strength, Men

• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

• For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Perfection, Being Thankful

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.50, CUP Archive

• No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ambition, Men, Desire

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.236

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