H.W. Charles Quotes
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.
No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!
You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.
I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.
