Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.

Andre Maurois's Popular Quotes

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.

- Andre Maurois

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in…

- Andre Maurois

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

- Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

- Andre Maurois

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

- Andre Maurois

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

- Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

- Andre Maurois

Live as if you were eternal.

- Andre Maurois