Quotation:
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
More quotes from: Henri Frederic Amiel
- "A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he ..."
- "Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced ..."
- "Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. "
- "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it ..."
- "Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. "
- "Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. "
- "Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. "
- "Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. "
- "Common sense is calculation applied to life. "
- "Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; ..."
- "Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a ..."
- "Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling ..."
- "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is ..."
- "Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. "
- "For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy ..."
- "Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not ..."
- "He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less ..."
- "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as ..."
- "If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. "
- "In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian ..."
- "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming ..."
- "It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth ..."
- "Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what ..."
- "Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all ..."
- "Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole ..."
- "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of ..."
- "Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! "
- "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. "
- "Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. "
- "Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much ..."
- "Order is a great person's need and their true well being. "
- "Order is power. "
- "Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our ..."
- "Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic ..."
- "Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. "
- "Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation ..."
- "Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. "
- "Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man ..."
- "So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. "
- "Society lives by faith, and develops by science. "
- "Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. "
- "Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and ..."
- "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist ..."
- "The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the ..."
- "The best path through life is the highway. "
- "The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. "
- "The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "
- "The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept ..."
- "The only substance properly so called is the soul. "
- "There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. "
- "Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it ..."
- "To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. "
- "To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do ..."
- "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we ..."
- "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. "
- "To marry unequally is to suffer equally. "
- "To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. "
- "True humility is contentment. "
- "Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. "
- "We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. "
- "We only understand that which already within us. "
- "What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the ..."
- "Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice ..."
- "Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. "
- "Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits ..."
- "Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are ..."
- "Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been ..."


