Thomas Carlyle Quotes :
1. “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
– Thomas Carlyle
2. “The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
– Thomas Carlyle
3. “No pressure, no diamonds.”
– Thomas Carlyle
4. “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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
5. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.”
– Thomas Carlyle
6. “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand”
– Thomas Carlyle
7. “The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
– Thomas Carlyle
8. “There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
– Thomas Carlyle
9. “No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
– Thomas Carlyle
10. “If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.”
– Thomas Carlyle
11. “Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”
– Thomas Carlyle
12. “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
– Thomas Carlyle
13. “There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
– Thomas Carlyle
14. “A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”
– Thomas Carlyle
15. “Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
– Thomas Carlyle
16. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
17. “A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.”
– Thomas Carlyle
18. “Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.”
– Thomas Carlyle
19. “Endurance is patience concentrated.”
– Thomas Carlyle
20. “Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
– Thomas Carlyle
21. “Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
– Thomas Carlyle
22. “The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”
– Thomas Carlyle
23. “Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
– Thomas Carlyle
24. “Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”
– Thomas Carlyle
25. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
– Thomas Carlyle
26. “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
– Thomas Carlyle
27. “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
– Thomas Carlyle
28. “To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
– Thomas Carlyle
29. “The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”
– Thomas Carlyle
30. “Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
– Thomas Carlyle
31. “The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
– Thomas Carlyle
32. “Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
– Thomas Carlyle
33. “Silence is more eloquent than words.”
– Thomas Carlyle
34. “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.”
– Thomas Carlyle
35. “I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
– Thomas Carlyle
36. “The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”
– Thomas Carlyle
37. “The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
– Thomas Carlyle
38. “Every noble work is at first impossible.”
– Thomas Carlyle
39. “No person is important enough to make me angry.”
– Thomas Carlyle
40. “Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.”
– Thomas Carlyle
41. “Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
– Thomas Carlyle
42. “Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.”
– Thomas Carlyle
43. “War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
– Thomas Carlyle
44. “All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
– Thomas Carlyle
45. “He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”
– Thomas Carlyle
46. “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.”
– Thomas Carlyle
47. “Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
– Thomas Carlyle
48. “The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
– Thomas Carlyle
49. “The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
– Thomas Carlyle
50. “Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.”
– Thomas Carlyle
51. “Wonder is the basis of worship.”
– Thomas Carlyle
52. “When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.”
– Thomas Carlyle
53. “It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
– Thomas Carlyle
54. “No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.”
– Thomas Carlyle
55. “If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.”
– Thomas Carlyle
56. “Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
– Thomas Carlyle
57. “The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”
– Thomas Carlyle
58. “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
59. “A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.”
– Thomas Carlyle
60. “Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
– Thomas Carlyle
61. “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
62.” Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
– Thomas Carlyle
63. “All great peoples are conservative.”
– Thomas Carlyle
64. “One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.”
– Thomas Carlyle
65. “Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.”
– Thomas Carlyle
66. “Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.”
– Thomas Carlyle
67. “In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”
– Thomas Carlyle
68. “Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
– Thomas Carlyle
69. “Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
– Thomas Carlyle
70. “Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.”
– Thomas Carlyle
71. “The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.”
– Thomas Carlyle
72. “A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
– Thomas Carlyle
73. “Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
– Thomas Carlyle
74. “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
– Thomas Carlyle
75. “No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.”
– Thomas Carlyle
76. “The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
– Thomas Carlyle
77. “Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
– Thomas Carlyle
78. “What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.”
– Thomas Carlyle
79. “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
80. “Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”
– Thomas Carlyle
