David Nicholls Quotes

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I needed to really grow up myself so I could be the woman that my daughter deserves.

Sometimes you have to be very bad before you can be very good.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.