Arthur Helps Quotes

Arthur Helps Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Arthur Helps
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
British
Birth day:
July 10
Birth year:
1813

  • 1
    A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Arthur Helps
  • 2
    Choose an author as you choose a friend. Arthur Helps
  • 3
    Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps
  • 4
    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
  • 5
    In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. Arthur Helps
  • 6
    Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? Arthur Helps
  • 7
    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
  • 8
    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
  • 9
    Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps
  • 10
    Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. Arthur Helps
  • 11
    The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. Arthur Helps
  • 12
    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
  • 13
    The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. Arthur Helps
  • 14
    We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Arthur Helps
  • 15
    Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Arthur Helps
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