Gilbert K. Chesterton Inspirational Quotes

• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Success

• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

• God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Looks, Sun

• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

• I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Cities, Parks

  "Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow". Book by Al Golin, 2004.

• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

• The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, New Year, Eye

• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Book

• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

• If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Perfectionism, Not Perfect

• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"

• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Earth, Artistic Temperament

  Heretics (1905) ch. 3

• If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

• The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Home, Adventure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

• We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Adventure is the champagne of life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Adventure

• The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  'The Napoleon of Notting Hill' (1904) bk. 1, ch. 1

• of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Strong, Practice

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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