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Thomas Carlyle Famous Quotations
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian whose work was highly influential during the Victorian era. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.
- A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
- A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
- A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
- Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
- He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
- I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
- Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
- Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
- Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
- 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.
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
- Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be.
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