Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennettwas an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1867
universe
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
too-much littles human-nature
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
motivational new-year lying
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
happiness way pleasure
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
success views best-effort
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
inspirational spring believe
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
justice publicity eternity
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
book reading men
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
worry trying melancholy
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
firsts unexpected planning
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
character taste bad-taste
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
inspirational self-confidence gains
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
money littles amusing
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
life happiness happy
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.