
There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
– GK Chesterton
Related Quotes:
- Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to. – Alec Wilkinson
- Don’t believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
- Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller. – Abigail Landsbrook
- They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started. – Andrew Barger
- Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written. – GK Chesterton
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
- Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author. – James Jeffrey Roche
- This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books. – Jonathan Galassi
- You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then serve to succeed. – Debasish Mridha
- If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying.When I succeed, I will again explore new opportunities. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don’t start you will never succeed. – Oscar Bimpong
- If at first you don’t succeed, try again.If you still don’t succeed, blame someone else. – Jeffrey S Trosin
- Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard – Laurie Buchanan
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid. – David Burr Gerrard
- Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. – Brandon Sanderson
- We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise. – Laurence Coss
- We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise. – Laurence Coss
- I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? – Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin
- Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
- Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
- Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for – David Bowie
- The power of the written word goes way beyond the page on which it is written – Sheena Sexton
- A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- I feel that a book is never written by the writer aloneit’s written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly – Subhasis Das
- Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations. – Santosh Kalwar
- Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day.Some scars never heal.Then again, some do. – Brad Meltzer
- Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian W Aldiss
- Be-patient for what was written for you was written by greatest of writers – Altaf ul qadri
- The Fourth Amendment wasn’t written for people with nothing to hide any more than the First Amendment was written for people with nothing to say. – Dave Krueger
- I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help. – Chris Murray
- Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse