Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Duty

• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Lying, Duty

• The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiración, motivación, miedo

• The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, This World, Duty

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.197

• Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Heart, Light

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

• The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Fool

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.135

• Silence is the eternal duty of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Duty

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Gay, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

• It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Distance, Lying

  Thomas Carlyle (1872*). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Burns. Life of Heyne. German playwrights. Voltaire. Novalis. Signs of the times. On history. Appendix: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame De Stael's 'Allemagne.' Schiller, Goethe and Madame De Stael”

• Los hombres sólo deben guiarse por sus propios intereses. Un buen gobierno es un buen equilibrio de éstos; y, excepto un ojo agudo y apetito por el interés propio, no requiere virtud en ningún aspecto. Para ambas partes es enfáticamente una máquina: para los descontentos, una máquina fiscal; para los satisfechos, una máquina para asegurar la propiedad. Sus deberes y sus defectos no son los de un padre, sino los de un activo condestable parroquial.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Father, Party, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

• The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Firsts, Duty

• And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heaven, Littles, Hell

  "Past and Present and Chartism".

• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Zero, Destiny, World

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Men, Dwarves

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