Charles Buxton
16 quotes.
Quotes by Charles Buxton
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Concentration alone conquers.
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
- In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
- Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
- It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if a single stitch drops; one single sin indulged in makes a hole you could put your head through.
- Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, except in one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall below himself.
- Of vain things, excuses are the vainest.
- Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
- The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him; the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not.
- The fact is nothing comes; at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
- The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can make up for that.
- The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit,--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
- The rule in carving holds good as to criticism,--never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
- You cannot win without sacrifice.
- You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.