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| 50 Inspiring Quotes on Success by John Steinbeck |
The famed American novelist John Steinbeck was a brilliant storyteller as well as a source of profound knowledge about achievement and life. His words can encourage, inspire, and teach. Here are 50 motivational quotations by John Steinbeck that can help you on your path to success.
1. "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
2. "Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
3. "It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."
4. "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
5. "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."
6. "A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals."
7. "Time is the only critic without ambition."
8. "I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
9. "A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?"
10. "We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it."
11. "I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy, and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."
12. "It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second."
13. "I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security—out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction."
14. "The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
15. "We do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
16. "And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
17. "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
18. "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
19. "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
20. "I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
21. "The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world."
22. "People don't take trips; trips take people."
23. "I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now—only that place where the books are kept."
24. "I have known a lot of drifters who turned out to have more character than many of the men who were supposed to have character. Character is a hard thing to burden a man with. It shows up when he is asked to make some sacrifice in the present for a speculative future gain."
25. "A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ."
26. "The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
27. "Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man."
28. "Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
29. "I guess the trouble was that we had no self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a dangerous conspiracy because they had actually read the works of Marx."
30. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
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31. "I guess the trouble was that we had no self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a dangerous conspiracy because they had actually read the works of Marx."
32. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
33. "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
34. "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
35. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
36. "Man is the only kind of varmint that sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
37. "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."
38. "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
39. "Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man."
40. "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a dangerous conspiracy because they had actually read the works of Marx."
41. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
42. "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
43. "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
44. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
45. "Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
46. "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."
47. "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
48. "Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man."
49. "I guess the trouble was that we had no self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a dangerous conspiracy because they had actually read the works of Marx."
50. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
I hope these quotations by John Steinbeck will inspire you and help you on your way to achievement. Accept the wisdom in his words and allow them to direct you on your path to success and personal development.
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