Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Phyllis Bottome
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
Novelist
Writer
Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Change
Outsider
Come
Interference
Must
Altered
People
Outsiders
Situations
Neither
Situation
Alteration
Within
Alterations
More quotes by Phyllis Bottome
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
Phyllis Bottome
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
Phyllis Bottome
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Phyllis Bottome
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
Phyllis Bottome
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
Phyllis Bottome
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
Phyllis Bottome
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
Phyllis Bottome
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
Phyllis Bottome
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
Phyllis Bottome
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
Phyllis Bottome
Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
Phyllis Bottome
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
Phyllis Bottome
hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
Phyllis Bottome
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
Phyllis Bottome
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
Phyllis Bottome
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
Phyllis Bottome
There is no thermometer for wants!
Phyllis Bottome
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
Phyllis Bottome
