Charles Kingsley
English clergyman, novelist and social reformer, 1819-1875
25 quotes.
Quotes by Charles Kingsley
- A friend once won need never be lost, if we will be only trusty and true ourselves.
- Any man or woman, in any age and under any circumstances, who will, can live the heroic life and exercise heroic influences.
- Build castles if you will, but only bright ones, and not too many.
- Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
- Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, He asks of thee works first and words after.
- Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
- Do the duty which lies nearest to you; your duty to the man who lives next door, and to the man who lives in the next street.
- Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
- Do what is right the best way you can, and wait to the end to know.
- Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
- If we do not understand our fellow-creatures we shall never love them.
- If you want to be miserable, think much about yourself; about what you want, what you like; what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you.
- If you will not do the thing you know to be right, and say the thing you know to be true, then indeed you are weak.
- Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say: “I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day.”
- Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
- Nothing is so infectious as example.
- Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not.
- The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
- The realm of the possible was given to man to hope and not to fear in.
- There are two freedoms,--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
- We must become good before we can make them good, and wise before we can make them wise.
- What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
- With the prayer of faith we can do anything.
- You are still God's child, still an immortal soul.
- You cannot learn to walk without walking; no more can you learn to do good without trying to do good.