A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Bensonwas an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 April 1862
motivational change positive
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
inspirational helping-others people
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
people authority
I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
doors joy soul
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
plato half action
A well begun is half ended.
people goes-on ends
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
beautiful mystery-novels world
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
needs needed persons
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
work ambition men
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
beauty uplifting song
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
business mean decision
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
life writing thinking
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
overcoming helping sometimes
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
life teacher self-esteem
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.