22 Quotes by Frank Crane

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

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.

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

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

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

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

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.

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.