Robert Brault
57 quotes.
Quotes by Robert Brault
- A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
- A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
- A river never beats its head against obstacles. It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea.
- As important as keeping a grasp on reality is keeping a grasp on possibility.
- As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.
- Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
- Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.
- Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.
- How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
- I am thankful for my dream — that elusive butterfly I have chased all my life — and thankful that it was elusive enough to last a lifetime.
- If there is a hard-won ability I would wish to take into a second life, it is the ability to recognize tomorrow's regret in today's excuse.
- If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
- If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
- If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
- If you spend your life waiting for your chance, you are spending your chance waiting.
- In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
- It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
- It is possible, if you never look up, to live a dull gray life under a blue sky.
- Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify.
- Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
- No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
- Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
- Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
- Once you see yourself as a victim of circumstance, there will always be, in the way of everything you might achieve, a circumstance.
- One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
- Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.
- The first requirement in taking a step in the right direction is to take a step in some direction.
- The great thing about a positive attitude is that it creates its own ambiance. It is its own scenic overlook, its own cozy fire, its own sunset on the water.
- The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
- The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.
- The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
- The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
- The trouble with letting trivial things ruin your life is that they keep getting more trivial.
- There can be heroism in the moment, but courage is always in the day-to-day.
- There is a bunch of things we mean to do, and life is the time we spend meaning to do them.
- There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
- There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
- There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
- There is nothing that so deviously siphons the joy from our lives, so unfailingly destroys the capacity of anything to make us happy, as a sense of entitlement.
- Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.