William Faulkner Famous Quotes
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
"If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs."
"Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible."
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."
William Faulkner Quotations
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
William Makepeace Thackeray
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection."
Bertrand Russell
"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Carl Gustav Jung
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
H L Hunt
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
Shirley Mount Hufstedler
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
Marvin
There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.
Sir V Pritchett
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus