Quote

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Mean
Virtue
Belief
Faith
Use
Virtues
Means
Allows
Action
Putting
Truth
Strength
Best
Becomes

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
Andre Gide
Image
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
Andre Gide
Image
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
Image
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
Image
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
Image
We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
Andre Gide
Image
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
Image
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide
Image
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide
Image
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre Gide
Image
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Andre Gide
Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
Image
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
Image
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
Image
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
Image
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
Image
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
Image
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
Andre Gide
Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide