8 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Growth

Thomas Carlyle quotes on growth

15. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

25. All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

29. No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

67. We must get rid of fear.

69. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

72. We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish. The yellow wheat is growing there; the good Earth is silent about all the rest, - has silently turned all the rest to some benefit too, and makes no complaint about it! So everywhere in Nature! She is true and not a lie; and yet so great, and just, and motherly in her truth. She requires of a thing only that it be genuine of heart; she will protect it if so; will not, if not so. There is a soul of truth in all the things she ever gave harbor to. Alas, is not this the history of all highest Truth that comes or ever came into the world?

85. 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.

99. No pressure, no diamonds.