Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outwa >>

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, >>

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biogra >>

Quotations about Persuasion

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. >>

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? >>

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellen >>

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas