Arthur Helps Quotes
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Strength, Deep, Joy, Silence)
"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Advice, Luxury)
"The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Man, Pleasure, Privilege, Woman)
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Danger, Sense)
"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Beauty, Cosmetics, Humility, Modesty, Purity, Spirit, Temper, Temperance)
"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Day, First, Man)
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: sayings, Word)
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Confidence, Gain, Labor, Self, Self confidence)
"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Wisdom, People, Advice)
"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Heart, Environment, Feet, Spiritual, Surrender, Will)
"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Loss, May, Self, Spiritual, Suffering, World)
"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Success)
"Experience is the extract of suffering."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Experience, Suffering)
"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Rest)
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Happiness, Fortune)
"Choose an author as you choose a friend."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Friend)
"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Admiration, Affection, Pity)
"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Action, Man)
"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Boredom, Dying, Sense)