Once a man has won a woman’s love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
Topics: One Step at a Time, Attitude, Happiness
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Integrity
Present yourself always
As who you would be,
And that is the person
The world will see.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Optimism, Funny quotes
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent—that it does not have to be recognized by others.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perseverance
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perseverance
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Optimism
The little money I have – that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Money
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Vegetarianism
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Integrity
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Memories
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
—Robert Brault
And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Goals
Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year
—Robert Brault
Topics: Weather
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Kindness
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover –
a) that you’re actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher.
b) that you’re still just a block of marble.
c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes.
d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Friendship
Try to discover
The road to success
And you’ll seek but never find,
But blaze your own path
And the road to success
Will trail right behind.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Success
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Charm
If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Forgiveness
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: “What happens if I do nothing?”
—Robert Brault
Topics: Action
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Attitude
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Learning
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Anger
The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned
—Robert Brault
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Optimism
If you aren’t sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
Today’s Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
d. all of the above.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Confidence
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Compliments
A commuter tie-up consists of you – and people who for some reason won’t use public transit.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
Do what you must,
And your friends will adjust.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Attitude
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Solitude