Charles Dickens Quotes

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

No human being shall be burdened with more than he is well able to bear.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Bolivar cannot carry double

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

How long can you tread water?

What can't be helped must be endured.