For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
("The Pearl")
More Quotes from John Steinbeck:
Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?John Steinbeck
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
John Steinbeck
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
John Steinbeck
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
John Steinbeck
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
John Steinbeck
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Abilities Quotes, World QuotesWhen I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Morgan Freeman
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
Ernest Mandel
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
Rutherford B. Hayes