If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
ANDRE MAUROISIf you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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