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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Life
Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Family
"Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Lasts, Remember
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10709, Delphi Classics

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Life
Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving
Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Money, Guarantees That
Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

Change begets change.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Change, Begets
Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.301, Xist Publishing

There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Heart, Passionate
Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.430

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Reason, Staying
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.195, Penguin

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Laughter, Humor
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.64

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Mean, Aunt
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.160

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Heart, Literature
"David Copperfield". Book by Charles Dickens, 1850.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Death, Book
A Tale of Two Cities bk. 3, ch. 15 (1859)

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Faith, Mother
Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). “Immortelles from Charles Dickens”, p.112

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Children, Kids
"The Old Curiosity Shop".

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Expectations, Morality
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.61

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Strong, Home
"Martin Chuzzlewit". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 35, 1844.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, New Year, Years
Charles Dickens (1846). “¬The Chimes”

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Men, Brave
Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.135

I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Should Have, Broken
Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Perseverance, Journey
Charles Dickens (1995). “Nicholas Nickleby”, p.262, Wordsworth Editions

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Kindred, Members
Charles Dickens (1873). “Oliver Twist. Great expectations”

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Luxury, Melancholy
Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.68

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Believe, Struggle
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

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