Brilliance Quotes

• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Dazzle, Baffled

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Honesty, Inspirational Life

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• Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Waiting, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 08, 2015

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dog, Real, Order

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• There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, People, Envy

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• The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Jewels, Wonderful

  Thomas Mann (1992). “Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years”, Vintage

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• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Sadness, Joy

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 12, 2016

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• In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

  Criss Jami

  Sitting Still, Order, Risk

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

  John Mortimer

  Law, Common Sense, Nails

  A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

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• I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Hair, Jewels, Should Have

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• One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

  Cyril Cusack

  Generosity, Actors, Performances

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

  Jose Marti

  Stars, Men, Light

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• Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

  Confucius

  Life, Wise, Organization

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• The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

  Robert Bresson

  Writing, Shining, Ordinary

  Robert Bresson (1977). “Notes on cinematography”

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• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christmas, Children, Moving

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Summer, Rain, Heart

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• I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.

  Pentti Linkola

  Believe, Humanity, Western Culture

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.133, Arktos

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• Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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