Andre Maurois quotes and words of wisdom

"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."
Found in the topic Age.

"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force."
Found in the topic Leadership.

"Business is a combination of war and sport."
Found in the topic Business.

"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny."
Found in the topic Action.

"The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know.""
Found in the topic Conversation.

"A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short."
Found in the topic Marriage.

"Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies."
Found in the topic World.

"Modesty and unselfishness ? these are virtues which men praise ? and pass by."
Found in the topic Modesty.

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
Found in the topic Astonish.

"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand."
Found in the topic Style.

Interesting Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.Leo Tolstoy - Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.Joan Klempner