Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Thomas Carlyle
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Thomas Carlyle
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
Thomas Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle
The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumor.
Thomas Carlyle
I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
Thomas Carlyle
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.