Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.”

— Robert Breault

102. “If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.”

— Robert Breault

103. “If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”

— Robert Breault

104. “Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.”

— Robert Breault

105. “On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.”

— Robert Breault

106. “The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.”

— Robert Breault

107. “Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.”

— Robert Breault

108. “There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”

— Robert Breault

109. “A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.”

— Robert Breault

110. “Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.”

— Robert Breault

111. “Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

113. “Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you’re not laughing.”

— Robert Breault

114. “If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

116. “I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.”

— Robert Breault

117. “Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to.”

— Robert Breault

118. “Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.”

— Robert Breault

119. “There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

— Robert Breault

120. “To have success, you can’t let failure stop you. To have great success, you can’t let success stop you.”

— Robert Breault

121. “What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.”

— Robert Breault

122. “In the end, success is not about who you know, it’s about you know who.”

— Robert Breault

123. “Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.”

— Robert Breault

124. “As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.”

— Robert Breault

125. “It’s not that perfection cannot be achieved. It’s that it’s so hard to stop there.”

— Robert Breault

126. “The problem with putting off things you’ve always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.”

— Robert Breault

127. “You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired.”

— Robert Breault

128. “It’s still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days – you just have to be a little more cockeyed.”

— Robert Breault

129. “I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids.”

— Robert Breault

130. “Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.”

— Robert Breault

131. “Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.”

— Robert Breault

132. “Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.”

— Robert Breault

133. “In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.”

— Robert Breault

134. “Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.”

— Robert Breault

135. “Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.”

— Robert Breault

136. “You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.”

— Robert Breault

137. “Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.”

— Robert Breault

138. “Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.”

— Robert Breault

139. “Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.”

— Robert Breault

140. “Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.”

— Robert Breault

141. “As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.”

— Robert Breault

142. “The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”

— Robert Breault

143. “If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.”

— Robert Breault

144. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.”

— Robert Breault

145. “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.”

— Robert Breault

146. “Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone’s toes, pretty much the same as life.”

— Robert Breault

147. “Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.”

— Robert Breault

148. “Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.”

— Robert Breault

149. “Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault