1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.