Charles Buxton
Charles Buxton
Charles Buxtonwas an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth18 November 1823
Charles Buxton quotes about
success positive-attitude enthusiasm
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
cold truth-is results
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
men self stamps
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
bitterness bitter feels
Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.
men insult injury
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
men poison victim
A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.
life winning chess
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
children block book
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
sea-breeze water sailing
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
desire movement something-better
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
party too-much companionship
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
mother brother father
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.
pain failure mean
Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
son pounds capitalism
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.