Inspirational Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ”

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”

“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”

“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”

“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn--the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you. O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!”

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”