Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Attitude
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
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, Happiness, Attitude
The road to success is wherever people need another road.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Success
Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Weather
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perspective
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 Brault
Topics: Attitude
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Funny quotes, Optimism
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perspective
Life is short, God’s way of encouraging a bit of focus.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Carpe-diem
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Childhood
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Women
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Compliments
And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Confidence
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Friendship
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Purpose, Meaning
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Solitude
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
—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
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
If you aren’t sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Integrity
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Civilization
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Anger
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Prayer
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
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