23 Motivational Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories during his lifetime. Here are 23 best motivational quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
1. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
2. The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
3. Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
4. The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
5. Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
6. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
7. Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
8. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
9. Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
10. An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man knocking over the solid furniture.
11. The compensation of very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense, one stays young.
12. Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
13. Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
14. All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
15. Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.
16. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.
17. All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase – ‘I love you’.
18. Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
19. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
20. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
21. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
22. The victor belongs to the spoils.
23. An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man knocking over the solid furniture.
