One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“Happiness depends on one being exactly fitted to the nature of one's work.” — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
