Charles Dickens Quotes

Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by Charles Dickens:

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.
Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you,
and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes.
It is much better that they should fail than you should.
Charles Dickens

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One"!
Charles Dickens