Gaines Quotes

“The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.”

“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”

“The mark of fear is not easily removed.”

“Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.”

“Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me I kind of sit back and feel well if I give this enough time it'll turn out that this was good so I shan't worry about it too much.”

“If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.”

“Go and find what it is that inspires you, go and find what it is that you love and go do that until it hurts. Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning—and he will be there until the End.”

“That rotten houseboat turned out to be a blessing in disguise.”

“It’s hard to describe the feeling that comes with starting your own business. It really is so much work in the beginning that you lose yourself in it. You lose your sense of time, and you can’t believe how quickly the days go by because there’s no time to focus on much of anything else. But then you open the doors, and it’s like you’ve given birth to this new thing that didn’t exist before. Then when it starts to flourish, well, that’s just icing on the cake. To get to see it live and breathe and to know that this thing you created out of thin air can put a smile on other people’s faces is such a blessing.”