Amazing Quotes From Thomas Carlyle

1. 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.
2. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
3. Every noble work is at first impossible.
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.
5. Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
6. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
7. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
8. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
9. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
10. Silence is more eloquent than words.
11. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
12. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
13. If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
14. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
15. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
16. A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
17. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
18. If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
19. 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.
20. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
21. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
22. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
23. 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.
24. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
25. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.