Quotes by American Authors - Page 166

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
David Spangler
Begin doing what you want to do now.
Marie Beynon Ray
The way to get ahead is to start now.
William Feather
As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.
Ernest Hemingway
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.
William Benton
If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
George Claude Lorimer
The gentleman is a Christian product.
George H. Calvert
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W.H. Auden
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert S. Lund
Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.
Erik Erikson
Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Most ball games are lost not won.
Casey Stengel
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
George Washington
Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.
Benjamin Franklin
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor
There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.
Alfred Mercier
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Nestell Bovee
My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.
Red Skelton
I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.
Joe E. Lewis
We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.
Bob Hope
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
T. G. Appleton
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.
Gabe Kaplan
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby
True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.
Bill Nye
Here's a dime. Call all your friends.
Tom Meany
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
She is one of my best friends. Why I've known her ever since we were the same age.
Galen Cooper
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.
Ann Landers
If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.
Oscar W. Firkins
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Love me please I love you I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.
Edith Wharton
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Althea Gibson
We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.
Annie Gottlieb
I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.
Cher