Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

In life, you get what you tolerate.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

My actions will follow my expectations.

I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.