Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Encouragement

• How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Clever, Failure

• I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Strong, Character

• He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

• America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, America, Genius

• Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Waiting, Virtue

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, p. 37, 1917.

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