Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practised as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career. May these Anton Chekhov Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” Anton Chekhov
2. “Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” Anton Chekhov
3. “Man is what he believes.” Anton Chekhov
4. “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” Anton Chekhov
5. “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” Anton Chekhov
6. “The more refined one is, the more unhappy.” Anton Chekhov
7. “Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.” Anton Chekhov
8. “To advise is not to compel.” Anton Chekhov
9. “Only entropy comes easy.” Anton Chekhov
10. “We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.” Anton Chekhov
11. “When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.” Anton Chekhov
12. “The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.” Anton Chekhov
13. “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” Anton Chekhov
14. “The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.” Anton Chekhov
15. “Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.” Anton Chekhov
16. “How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.” Anton Chekhov
17. “Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.” Anton Chekhov
18. “There is nothing new in art except talent.” Anton Chekhov
19. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov
20. “All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.” Anton Chekhov
21. “I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.” Anton Chekhov
22. “The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.” Anton Chekhov
23. “Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” Anton Chekhov
24. “If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.” Anton Chekhov
25. “No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.” Anton Chekhov
26. “If you cry ‘forward’, you must without fail, make plain in what direction to go.” Anton Chekhov
27. “Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.” Anton Chekhov
28. “People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.” Anton Chekhov
29. “A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.” Anton Chekhov
30. “No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand. Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.” Anton Chekhov
31. “A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.” Anton Chekhov
32. “When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that’s faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that’s science.” Anton Chekhov
33. “The sea has neither meaning nor pity.” Anton Chekhov
34. “Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” Anton Chekhov
35. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” Anton Chekhov
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