Charlotte Bronte quotes

" I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. " # Life and Living # Purpose # Love

" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. " # Intolerance # Conscience # Mind

" Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. " # Community

" If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

" Look twice before you leap. " # Action

" Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. " # Success # Judgment and Judges # God

" Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. " # Irreverence # Religion # Love

" Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth -- who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful. " # Missionaries # Ambition # Zeal

" Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. " # Revenge # Vengeance # Love

" Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. " # Cheerfulness