Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Usually, when you can’t overcome the obstacles in your path, it’s not your path.”

— Robert Breault

302. “I’m right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

304. “Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.”

— Robert Breault

305. “Eventually you come to realize that most people aren’t looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.”

— Robert Breault

306. “It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.”

— Robert Breault

307. “As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.”

— Robert Breault

308. “At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.”

— Robert Breault

309. “The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.”

— Robert Breault

310. “There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.”

— Robert Breault

311. “Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.”

— Robert Breault

312. “Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?”

— Robert Breault

313. “You can’t postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?”

— Robert Breault

314. “Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?”

— Robert Breault

315. “In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.”

— Robert Breault

316. “Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i’s.”

— Robert Breault

317. “The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.”

— Robert Breault

318. “Love may be blind, but if you’ve ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.”

— Robert Breault

319. “I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.”

— Robert Breault

320. “So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.”

— Robert Breault

321. “Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.”

— Robert Breault

322. “Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, “Am I keeping my promises?””

— Robert Breault

323. “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.”

— Robert Breault

324. “Sign over the gates of hell: “Doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.””

— Robert Breault

325. “Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it’s you who are spinning on your axis.”

— Robert Breault

326. “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.”

— Robert Breault

327. “Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow’s past and change it.”

— Robert Breault

328. “After a lifetime of deep thought, I’ve decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.”

— Robert Breault

329. “A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.”

— Robert Breault

330. “Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.”

— Robert Breault

331. “A watched child never learns.”

— Robert Breault

332. “The first goal of writing is to have one’s words read successfully.”

— Robert Breault

333. “As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.”

— Robert Breault

334. “The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.”

— Robert Breault

335. “Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what – if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.”

— Robert Breault

336. “You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults – until you meet someone who likes your faults.”

— Robert Breault

337. “Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.”

— Robert Breault

338. “There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.”

— Robert Breault

339. “The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

341. “Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother’s glance.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

343. “Either way, things are a lot better – either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they’re going to be.”

— Robert Breault

344. “Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.”

— Robert Breault

345. “The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.”

— Robert Breault

346. “The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.”

— Robert Breault

347. “If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.”

— Robert Breault

348. “A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.”

— Robert Breault

349. “What are memories but dreams of a better past.”

— Robert Breault

350. “Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.”

— Robert Breault