Andre Maurois Quotes

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

People who succeed in life have a need for something greater than themselves.

The passions are the voice of the body.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

I always want to grow and top myself.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.