Frank Crane Quotes (15 Quotes)

It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day and by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.