Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps More Quotes by Arthur Helps More Quotes From Arthur Helps The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. Arthur Helps causes leadership men It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one. Arthur Helps strong mind thinking If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity. Arthur Helps jealous deception may A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places. Arthur Helps errors feelings character The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover. Arthur Helps concern character world The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. Arthur Helps opinion character men The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. Arthur Helps luxury money funny The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it. Arthur Helps use made success It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it. Arthur Helps half stories advice We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. Arthur Helps prominent weakness There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. Arthur Helps errors men science Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers Arthur Helps philosopher mets disappointment There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites. Arthur Helps honesty hypocrite expression When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility. Arthur Helps fate humility mistake Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. Arthur Helps toil looks knowledge It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. Arthur Helps self spiritual loss Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Arthur Helps success motivational inspirational The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. Arthur Helps privilege house men What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. Arthur Helps blessing discovery america The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. Arthur Helps wells financial business
