Quotes from Thomas Hughes

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for....

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

However, you'll all find, if you haven't found it out already, that a time comes in every human friendship when you must go down into the depths of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in fear for his answer.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

Berbahagialah orang yang berbakat menjalin persahabatan, karena hal itu merupakan salah satu karunia Tuhan yang terbaik. Menjalin persahabatan meliputi banyak kemampuan, terutama untuk tidak mementingkan diri sendiri dan untuk menghargai keluhuran jiwa serta daya tarik orang lain.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.