Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Brisbane (American Editor)

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Solitude

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Candor, Friendship

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can’t get out and those outside don’t want to get in.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Death

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Time, Time Management

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains. And the time that remains is time enough, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Time Management, Time, Remorse, Value of Time, Disappointment, Regret

Spinoza, greatest abstract philosopher, left his sister a bed and a small silver pen knife, no money, no land, no house, but his thought has taught the world’s greatest thinking men.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Poverty

The electric unit, whatever it may be, but certainly infinitely “small,” may ultimately win man’s fight against his most deadly enemy, the invisible enemy.
—Arthur Brisbane

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane
Topics: Success, Hard Work, Work, Effort

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