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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Men, Repentance And Forgiveness, Faults

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

Wells

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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.

Motivational, Progress, Purpose

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Past, Attractive, Drained

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Consumerism, Determine, Overconsumption

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Education, Mistake, Learning

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Inspirational, Life, Success

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Motivational, Leadership, Life And Love

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Wisdom, War, Believe

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Lying, World, Recognition

"Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Life, Motivational, Education

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Men, Greatness, History

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Inspirational, Important, Enough

No pressure, no diamonds.

Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Leadership, Being Happy, Honesty

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Motivational, Lying, Duty

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

"One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step". Book by Randy L. Thurman, p. 81, en.wikiquote.org. July 3, 2012.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Ego, Faults, Misery

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Atheist, Jesus, Fun

In D. A. Wilson 'Carlyle at his Zenith' (1927) p. 238

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Motivational, Happiness, Business

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Music, Heart, Looks

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Inspirational, Men, Goal

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