More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
No pressure, no diamonds.
