Thomas Carlyle Quotes

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

No pressure, no diamonds.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like 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.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.