Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Away
Good
Habits
Throwing
Never
Birthday
Would
Putting
Time
Begin
Habit
Clothes
More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
Amos Bronson Alcott
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Amos Bronson Alcott
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
Amos Bronson Alcott
