Quotes by American Authors - Page 184

When his enthusiasm goes he's through as a player.
Pete Rose
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart if you want it to work.
Susanna Clark
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason controlled by caution sound in theory practical in application reflects confidence spreads good cheer raises morale inspires associates arouses loyalty and laughs at adversity it is beyond price.
Coleman Cox
Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Edward L. Curtis
People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're a champion you have to have it in your heart.
Chris Evert
Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
Judith Krantz
Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.
Louisa Thomas
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting but that doesn't matter.
Beverly Sills
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most believe in most strongly expect on the deepest level and imagine most vividly.
Shakti Gawain
What is man but his passion?
Robert Penn Warren
Whatever you attempt go at it with spirit. Put some in!
David Starr Jordan
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great generous and true without it we are little false and mean.
L. E. Landon
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Charles A. Cerami
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Ann Wigmore
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.
Mae West
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
Mary Parker Follett
There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.
Willa Cather
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee Williams
To sing is to love and affirm to fly and soar to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live that love is there that nothing is a promise but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found.
Joan Baez
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
Maxwell Perkins
1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.
Satchel Paige
One's first book kiss home run is always the best.
Clifton Fadiman
To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homolka
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
W.H. Auden
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
J. K. Galbraith
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
Margaret Halsey
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
Bruce Gould
You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.
Thomas Appleton
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
Clark Ross Parker
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
Truman Capote
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
Henry Carey
None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They love him most for the enemies that he has made.
General E. S. Bragg
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people if not the eagerness the passion for the same thing?
Bernard Berenson
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Christopher Morley
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Samuel L. Clemens
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William Cullen Bryant