Thomas Carlyle

No pressure, no diamonds. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#no pressure #pressure

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop

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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#discouragement #distinguishes #impossibilities #obstacle #permanence

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #confines #darkness #empires #everlasting

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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#after #become #books #collection #depends

No person is important enough to make me angry. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#enough #important #make #me #person

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#burst #comes #dance #day #every

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#diamond #dust #heaven #jewels

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#heart #joy #joyous #kindness #laugh