Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. >>

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union- >>

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and >>

Quotations about Present

To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else. >>

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothin >>

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I c >>

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Carlyle, Thomas