A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
– Brendan Francis
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
– Brendan Francis
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
– Brendan Francis
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
– Brendan Francis
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
– Brendan Francis
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
– Brendan Francis
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
– Brendan Francis
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
– Brendan Francis
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
– Brendan Francis
Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.
– Brendan Francis
No man can discover his own talents.
– Brendan Francis
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
– Brendan Francis
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
– Brendan Francis
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
– Brendan Francis
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
– Brendan Francis
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.