James Anthony Froude Professions : Novelist Born : April 23, 1818 Died : October 20, 1894 Browse All Authors Top 120 quotes by James Anthony Froude Human improvement is from within outward. James Anthony Froude improvement humans character You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Anthony Froude motivational inspirational life As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. James Anthony Froude learning acceptance life Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James Anthony Froude honesty integrity sports The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. James Anthony Froude tests real belief Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. James Anthony Froude deceit evil world When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full. James Anthony Froude reflection heart past The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. James Anthony Froude greatness acceptance self We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. James Anthony Froude light past fall The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them. James Anthony Froude caring trials waiting Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. James Anthony Froude absurdity dominion ignorance Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. James Anthony Froude success motivational inspirational Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith. James Anthony Froude old-friends tears heart Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. James Anthony Froude fear motivational inspirational I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence. James Anthony Froude crush heart may We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. James Anthony Froude certainty faith peace Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. James Anthony Froude originality nature men Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is . James Anthony Froude real men thinking The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so. James Anthony Froude moral simple stories What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded. James Anthony Froude wife husband men Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
