Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him.

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

Is she kind as she is fair?

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.