Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Giving

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

• A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

• To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Devil, Rolling

  Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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

• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

• All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Positive, Noble

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.365, Lulu.com

• Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Book, Triviality

• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Change, Truth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

• There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Heroic

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Sir Walter Scott" (1838)

• Let Time and Chance combine, combine!
  Let Time and Chance combine!
  The fairest love from heaven above,
  That love of yours was mine,
  My Dear!
  That love of yours was mine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Heaven, Chance

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.473

• The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Work, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

• He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Writing, Heroic

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.37

• In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, People, Disputes

• Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Success, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.123, Univ of California Press

• The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Positive, Sadness

• Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Knowledge, Love Is

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.123

• Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Mind, Purpose

• Biography is the only true history.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Biographies, My Biography

• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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