Amos Bronson Alcott
16 quotes.
Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
- Be what you were meant to be.
- Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
- Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
- First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
- Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
- Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
- Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
- Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.
- Our ideals are our better selves.
- Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
- Success is sweet; the sweeter if long delayed, and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
- The less of routine, the more of life.
- The travelled mind is the catholic mind, educated out of exclusiveness and egotism.
- To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
- We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.