Charles Buxton Quotes

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

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.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can’t do it.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

The fact is – nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters–all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

A successful career has been full of blunders.