Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
William Ellery Channing
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Ellery Channing
Age: 62 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 7
Died: 1842
Died: October 2
Pastor
Preacher
Theologian
Newport
Rhode Island
Reverend William Ellery Channing
Best
Worth
Objective
Self
Virtue
Individuality
Even
Moral
Crowd
Lying
Objectives
Individual
Crowds
Energy
Determination
Action
Toward
Swept
Away
Lies
Inward
More quotes by William Ellery Channing
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is in individual character
William Ellery Channing
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
William Ellery Channing
There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
William Ellery Channing
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
William Ellery Channing
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
William Ellery Channing
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
William Ellery Channing
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
William Ellery Channing
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
William Ellery Channing
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
William Ellery Channing
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
William Ellery Channing
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
William Ellery Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
William Ellery Channing
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
William Ellery Channing
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
William Ellery Channing
