Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

If something is done without objectifying, it can be beautiful.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.'

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

I don't think fashion is evil.

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Genius is knowing where to stop.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

What we say no to is sometimes more important than what we say yes to.

Sometimes it's good to know there are limits.

Art chooses its constraints.