Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Charles Buxton (British Politician, Writer)

Charles Buxton (1823–71) was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament. Buxton was born on 18 November 1822 in Cromer, Norfolk, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet, a notable brewer, MP and social reformer, and followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a partner in the brewery of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, & Co in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, and then an MP. He served as Liberal MP for Newport, Isle of Wight, Maidstone and East Surrey. His son Sydney Buxton was also an MP and governor of South Africa.

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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

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

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

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

No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong. What wonder we fail?
Charles Buxton

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Foresight, Forethought

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

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: Success, Dedication, Commitment, Attitude, Ability, Zeal, Enthusiasm, Passion

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

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Criticism

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Cheerfulness

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

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

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: The Present, Conceit, Present

The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Effort, Goals

Of all vain things excuses are the vainest.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Excuses

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

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Pleasure

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Charles Buxton
Topics: Self-Discovery, Critics, Criticism

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