The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Critics, Criticism
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Forethought, Foresight
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Zeal, Attitude, Passion, Enthusiasm, Commitment, Ability, Success, Dedication
The first duty to children is to make them happy.—If you have not made them so, you have wronged them.—No other good they may get can make up for that.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Children
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Temper
It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if a single stitch drops.—One single sin indulged in makes a hole you could put your head through.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Conscience
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Success
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Criticism
The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Effort, Goals
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Pleasure
I more and more see this, that we judge men’s abilities less from what they say or do, than from what they look. Tis the man’s face that gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Face
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Self-Discovery, Criticism, Critics
Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can’t do it.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Procrastination
Of all vain things excuses are the vainest.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Excuses
No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong. What wonder we fail?
—Charles Buxton
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Cheerfulness
If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a most comfortable quality.—But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointing to vanity, that a great man’s idea of himself gets washed out of him by the time he is forty.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Conceit, Present, The Present
In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Possessions
The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit—that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
—Charles Buxton
Topics: Strength, Success
You will never find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
—Charles Buxton
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