Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Quotes

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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Flattery, Imitation

• Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, War, Writing

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.30

• Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Motivation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.67

• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

• We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Two, Innovation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

• All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Depressing

• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Mean, Literature

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