Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle anniversaryinspirationallove The great soul of this world is just. Thomas Carlyle souljusticeworld A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. Thomas Carlyle focus-and-concentrationdataessentials If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. Thomas Carlyle ifswishmen It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. Thomas Carlyle heroheartsweet Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle miseryfaultsego No pressure, no diamonds. Thomas Carlyle good-lifefailureuplifting All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven. Thomas Carlyle workheavenhands Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Thomas Carlyle honestymenworld If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle musicheartlooks Speech is silver, silence is golden. Thomas Carlyle speechsilencegold The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. Thomas Carlyle fearmotivationalinspirational If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead. Thomas Carlyle greaterfamemen Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle achievementexcellenceintellectual No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. Thomas Carlyle givingmenlife Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Thomas Carlyle laughterjoyhappiness Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. Thomas Carlyle lightheartlying There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible. Thomas Carlyle shapesactingdone The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. Thomas Carlyle readingwritingbook Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. Thomas Carlyle bricks-and-mortarcharactermen
