Thomas Carlyle on determination
Thomas Carlyle101 quotes“Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.”
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle See deep enough, and you see musically.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell Being unconditionally happy is a practice: “Come what may, today I’m going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everything is going to vanish and disappear-so what! Who cares! Let me at least be happy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath.”
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.
Maria SharapovaMaria Sharapova Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
ChanakyaChanakya I have a lot of hunger to win the big titles.
PV SindhuPV Sindhu I’m focused on going out every day and doing my best.
Maria SharapovaMaria Sharapova My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He’s inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination – but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.
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