Christy Brown

Novelist Irish 1932 – 1981

Irish novelist known for My Left Foot.

372 quotes

"I have discovered that I can say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."
Art
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Strength
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
Hope
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Life
"Love is the only thing that grows when shared."
Love
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Work
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Courage
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Change
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Education
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Wisdom
"Time flies when you're having fun."
Time
"The truth will set you free."
Truth
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Freedom
"Peace comes from within."
Peace
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Nature
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Art
"Science is organized knowledge."
Science
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Music
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Faith
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
Leadership
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Dreams
"Laughter is the best medicine."
Humor
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
Beauty
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Life
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Perseverance
"Gratitude is the best attitude."
Gratitude
"Creativity takes courage."
Creativity
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of mankind."
Justice
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."
Patience
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Kindness