Quotes by American Authors - Page 149

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.
Gerald Johnson
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
Austin O'Malley
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi
With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck Brooks
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
Woodrow Wilson
One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.
Olin Miller
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Luther Burbank
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
Hugh Prather
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.
Erica Jong
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.
Helen Keller
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward Beecher
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marian Wright Edelman
Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
Ruth Gordon
Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.
Kristin Hunter
My only advice is to stay aware listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
Judy Blume
The healthy the strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
We not only need to be willing to give but also to be open to receiving from others.
On Hope
The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere and within your reach.
Marcia Wieder
The hearts that never lean must fall.
Emily Dickinson
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
Dale Carnegie
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
Suzanne Massie
We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
William Ellery Channing
Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer your muscles stronger and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.
Prentice Mulford
Unless we give part of ourselves away unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.
Harold Taylor
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein
The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.
Sidney Powell
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Charles W. Eliot
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
George Matthew Adams
When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
Sara Ruddick
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
William J. H. Boetcker
The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.
Indigo Girls
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson
Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
Robert J. McCracken