A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man. John Steinbeck View this quote
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
John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. John Steinbeck
No one wants advice – only corroboration. John Steinbeck
No one who is young is ever going to be old. John Steinbeck
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental. John Steinbeck
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. John Steinbeck
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. John Steinbeck
To finish is a sadness to a writer – a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. John Steinbeck
We don’t take a trip. A trip takes us. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
