Quotes by American Authors - Page 123

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
Thomas P. Murphy
As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.
John Mason
Dollars cannot buy yesterday.
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
John H. Patterson
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is now ... this day this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
Charles Macomb Flandrau
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.
Horatio W. Dresser
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.
Herb Gardner
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
Ben Irwin
The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Jack London
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.
John W. Gardner
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We create our fate every day we live.
Henry Miller
I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
Kerri Strug
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John Caldwell Calhoun
Rocked in the cradle of the deep I lay me down in peace to sleep.
Emma Willard
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden
The eye is the jewel of the body.
Henry David Thoreau
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing to do but work Nothing to eat but food Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude.
Ben King
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie D. Babcock
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.
Louis L'Amour
If you stop struggling then you stop life.
Huey Newton
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
Henry Miller
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
Julia Ward Howe
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
Meridel Le Sueur
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
Diane Glancy
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
Shelley Winters
Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"
Joaquin Miller
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
Mary Parker Follett
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.
Rosie Perez
People with good intentions never give up!
Jane Smiley
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson