John Stuart Blackie
6 quotes.
Quotes by John Stuart Blackie
- Let whatever you are and whatever you do, grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong soil of reality.
- Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a good use of the opportunities given you.
- Life is an earnest business, and no man was ever made great or good by a diet of broad grins.
- Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it.
- More than all things, avoid fault-finding and a habit of criticism.
- Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.