Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by A. C. Benson (English Essayist)

A. C. Benson (1862–1925,) fully Arthur Christopher Benson, was an English essayist, poet, and academic who served as the 28th Master of Magdalene College-Cambridge 1915–25. He was the eldest surviving son of Edward White Benson (1829–96,) archbishop of Canterbury, and brother of writers E. F. Benson and Robert Hugh Benson and Egyptologist Margaret Benson.

Born at Wellington College, Berkshire, Benson wrote studies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Fitzgerald, Walter Pater, Lord Tennyson, and John Ruskin, a memoir of his brother Robert Hugh Benson, and a biography of his father Edward White Benson. He also wrote the lyrics of composer Edward Elgar’s Coronation Ode and many other public odes and verses, such as the patriotic song ‘Land of Hope and Glory.’

Benson kept a diary 1897–1925; extracts were included in David Newsome’s biography On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, the Diarist (1980.)

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I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Friendship

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Decisions

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Change, Moving on, Self-Discovery

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Courage

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Fear, Sorrow, Courage

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Appreciation

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Help

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Teaching

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn’t die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one’s mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn’t bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Giving, Service, Endurance, Perseverance, Resolve, Kindness

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Service, Giving, Kindness

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Mystery

Congenial labor is the essence of happiness.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Happiness

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality—the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Books, Reading

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Attitude, Change

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. Benson
Topics: Being Ourselves

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