Robert Breault Quotes

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• Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
• If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
• No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
• We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.
• The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
• Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good…
• Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.
• We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
• I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
• Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
• There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
• There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
• A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.
• Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
• You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.
• As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.
• The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep…
• The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.
• Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
• Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

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