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4082 quotesA man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Crafts
Thomas Carlyle
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Argument
Thomas Carlyle
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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
Payment
Thomas Carlyle
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Cleverness
Thomas Carlyle
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Ignorance
Thomas Carlyle
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Speakers and Speaking
Thomas Carlyle
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Carlyle
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Success
Thomas Carlyle
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Beginning
Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Love
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Tools
Thomas Carlyle
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Persuasion
Thomas Carlyle
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Materialism
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Insights
Thomas Carlyle
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Advice
Thomas Carlyle
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Fear
Thomas Carlyle
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
Hell
Thomas Carlyle
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Sincerity
Thomas Carlyle
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Purpose
Thomas Carlyle
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun