Quotes by American Authors - Page 193

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Wendell Phillips
Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.
Marcelene Cox
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Pearl S. Buck
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
Thomas J. Watson
We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith
If you have enough fantasies you're ready in the event that something happens.
Sheila Ballantyne
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
George. C. Scott
However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.
Muriel Rukeyser
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
Louise Nevelson
Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck
Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Leap and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron
The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.
Michael Cardone
With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides He provides.
Frank N. D. Buchman
What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.
Stephen Olford
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Dorothea Brande
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
Catch courage.
Carolyn Heilbrun
On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
William Benton
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda Ueland
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
Douglas Malloch
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
Rollo May
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
Frances Rodman
I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Reinhold Niebuhr
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Henry S. Haskins
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Edwin H. Chapin
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones
I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.
Rona Barrett
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag but no one seemed to think anything about it apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.
Jane Wagner
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener