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Top 20 Thomas Hughes Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

1. “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Life isn’t all beer and skittles.”

2. “Life isn’t all beer and skittles.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Remember there’s always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you’ll only listen for it.”

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

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.”

6. “Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.”

7. “Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.”

8. “He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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. And that’s his idea of a compromise.”

9. “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. And that’s his idea of a compromise.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered.”

11. “A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “From behind the shadow of the still small voice – more awful than tempest or earthquake – more sure and persistent than day and night – is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

13. “From behind the shadow of the still small voice – more awful than tempest or earthquake – more sure and persistent than day and night – is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Life isn’t all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.”

14. “Life isn’t all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Christ’s whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness – the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God – one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.”

15. “Christ’s whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness – the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God – one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.”

17. “Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.”

— Thomas Hughes

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Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father’s story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can’t understand one without the other.”

19. “But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father’s story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can’t understand one without the other.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.”

20. “Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes Quote: “Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.”

22. “Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.”

— Thomas Hughes

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