Robert Breault Quotes

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.