Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
—Robert Brault
As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Opportunities
Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Excuses
A commuter tie-up consists of you – and people who for some reason won’t use public transit.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families – that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Optimism
Once a man has won a woman’s love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned
—Robert Brault
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Happiness
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
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Driving
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Learning
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
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Friendship
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world’s wisest man. “O, great sage,” he says, “tell me the meaning of life”. The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man’s shoulder and says, “Do you have any other questions, my son?” Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, “You wouldn’t know the meaning of lift, would you?”
—Robert Brault
Topics: Life
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Kindness
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Happiness, Attitude, One Step at a Time
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Remorse, Service, Honesty, Regret, Disappointment, Compassion, Kindness
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
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
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Tact, Perspective
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
Shall I redirect my life’s journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I’m entitled to?
—Robert Brault
Topics: Life
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
Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Time
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
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose – the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Adversity
After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn’t a pessimist understand?
—Robert Brault
Topics: Optimism