Charles Simmons Quotes

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.