Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
- All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
- Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Best Quotes
- I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.
- It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
- The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
- War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
- I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
- Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.