Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have… — 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 and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love. — 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
