Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Chalmers

“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”

“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...”

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

“God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.”

“Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.”

“Nobody dast blame this man. You don’t understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there’s no rock bottom to the life. He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple spots on your hat and your finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream boy, it comes with the territory.”

“It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.”

“By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.”

“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.”

“Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!”

“I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!”

“To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.”

“The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.”

“Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”

“Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”

“If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.”

“Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is created above all things.”

“When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.”

“All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.”

“As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.”