Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
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• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Great
  • Long
  • Desire

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

  

  Pam Brown
  • People
  • Dark
  • Courage

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Important
  • Love
  • Parents

• Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Courage
  • My Life

• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • She
  • Truth
  • Today

• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Rest
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  • Start

• I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Courage
  • Give

• British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Chinese

• I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.

  

  Patrick White
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Remember

• It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Courage

• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Responsibility

• I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • People
  • Long
  • Wanted

• I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

  

  David Edward Jenkins
  • God
  • Past
  • Doubt

• My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • War
  • Bad
  • House

• The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won. Nor can it be won cheaply, as the taxpayer is learning.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Peace
  • Learning

• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Desire
  • Courage
  • Prize