Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

I must run away, I must escape this very day or I shall go out of my mind.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

TRIGORIN Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!

A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Existence is tedious, anyway.

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

One hundred years from now, the people who come after us, for whom our lives are showing the way--will they think of us kindly? Will they remember us with a kind word? I wish to God I could think so.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

..One has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create..

When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair.

One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Only entropy comes easy.

The life of a man is like a flower, blooming so gaily in a field. Then, along comes a goat, he eats it and the flower is gone!

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work.”

“Winning isn’t everything – It’s the only thing.”

“After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the endu.””In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”

“Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.”

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

“Inches make champions.”

“If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.”

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

“Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s OK You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.”

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.”

“If you aren’t fired up with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.”

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”

“Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence.”

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”