Arnold Bennett Quotes

Arnold Bennett

An English novelist.
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English novelist. » Arnold Bennett on Wikipedia

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Aging and Old Age

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Self Confidence

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Creating Positive Change · Change and Transience

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Friends and Friendship

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.