Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall. Thomas Carlyle true-friend wall loyalty A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. Thomas Carlyle excess anxiety men No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. Thomas Carlyle iron inspirational believe O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. Thomas Carlyle bitter poor earth Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. Thomas Carlyle work motivational happiness Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others. Thomas Carlyle persons 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. Thomas Carlyle blessing inspirational men In idleness there is a perpetual despair. Thomas Carlyle idleness perpetual despair This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that. Thomas Carlyle makers purpose men If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Thomas Carlyle truth-is kind speak I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle wisdom war believe That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Thomas Carlyle ignorance men knowledge Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. Thomas Carlyle nature summer spring Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action. Thomas Carlyle kind doubt action The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do . Thomas Carlyle verbs infinite Love not Pleasure; love God. Thomas Carlyle pleasure-love pleasure god-love One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. Thomas Carlyle converting certainty doubt Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God! Thomas Carlyle heart feels Thought is the parent of the deed. Thomas Carlyle parent deeds thinking Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. Thomas Carlyle wonderful men book
