Thomas Kempis Quotes

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Thomas Kempis

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Thomas Kempis

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Thomas Kempis

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas Kempis

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!'

Thomas Kempis

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas Kempis