Quotes by Bryce Courtenay

“It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.”

“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”

“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and ch...”

“The imagination is always the best torturer.”

“Never take advice from a donkey.”

“Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.”

“You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart”

“Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we ...”

“He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".”

“The thing about fires most people dont realise is the noise. Its deafening so even if you shout, you cant be heard three feet away. You can never quite get used to the fury of it, its like a mighty...”

“Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poo...”

“People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.”

“Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.”

“Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a...”

“While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen ye...”

“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big ...”

“Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.”

“The thing about fires most people don’t realise is the noise. It’s deafening so even if you shout, you can’t be heard three feet away. You can never quite get used to the fury of it, it’s like a mi...”

“First with the head, then with the heart.”

“The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the mean...”