Top 766 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Breault

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musical artist Robert Breault.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Robert Breault

Robert Breault is an American operatic tenor. Born in Michigan, he holds a B.M. degree from St. Norbert College (1985) from which he received a distinguished alumni award in 1997. In addition, he holds a M.M. (1987), and a D.M.A. (1991) from the University of Michigan where he studied voice with soprano Lorna Haywood. His early training also included two years of study at the San Francisco Merola Opera Program, and an internship with Michigan Opera Theatre. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah where he teaches voice and serves as Director of Opera at the University of Utah School of Music.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.
Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone. — © Robert Breault
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.
Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.
Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — © Robert Breault
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.
Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.
The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.
Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.
You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.
The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.
I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.
Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" — © Robert Breault
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.
As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. — © Robert Breault
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.
Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.
Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.
We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
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