Quotes by American Authors - Page 183

To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.
George Cullum
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
George Washington
I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
Connie Mack
Whenever you fall pick something up.
Oswald Avery
I'm not happy I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
Beverly Sills
There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.
Edgar Watson Howe
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
Go to bed early get up early-this is wise.
Mark Twain
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each morning sees some task begin each evening sees it close Something attempted something done has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy L. Smith
Error will slip through a crack while truth will stick in a doorway.
H. W. Shaw
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward J. Phelps
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
Irv Kupcinet
For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
Buckminster Fuller
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
Charles Lindbergh
Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
Corita Kent
Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
General George S. Patton
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.
Louis Simpson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
No one grows old by living only by losing interest in living.
Marie Beynon Ray
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
Louis Auchincloss
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.
Hosea Ballou
Knowledge is power but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.
Donald M. Kendall
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Edward B. Butler
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
Walter Chrysler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
George Matthew Adams
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
Thomas N. Carruther
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time then everything is easy.
Thomas A. Buckner
Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.
James Caan
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
Julia Child
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab