Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Life
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Optimism
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
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
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
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Kindness
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Prayer
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
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
—Robert Brault
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Attitude, Happiness, One Step at a Time
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Integrity
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
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Adversity