David Viscott Quotes


"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
- David Viscott
(Related: Love, Sun)

"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
- David Viscott
(Related: Time, Enthusiasm, Effort, Hurt, Succeed, Trying, Will)

"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
- David Viscott
(Related: Cure, Disease)

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
- David Viscott
(Related: Faith, Life, Man, Will)

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."
- David Viscott
(Related: Want)

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."
- David Viscott
(Related: Life, Reading)

"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."
- David Viscott
(Related: Old)

"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."
- David Viscott
(Related: Thought, People, Action, Providence)

"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."
- David Viscott
(Related: People, End)

"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
- David Viscott
(Related: Courage, Succeed)

"This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole."
- David Viscott
(Related: People, America, Therapy, Trying)

"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."
- David Viscott
(Related: Difference)