148 Quotes by William Ellery Channing

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Be true to your own highest convictions.