Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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The devil has his elect.
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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Debt is a bottomless sea.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.