John Steinbeck Quotes

“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:failure

“We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:anger

“They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

topic:heaven

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:want

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“intentions, good or bad, are not enough.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:personality

“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.”

― John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

topic:personality

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