Quotes by American Authors - Page 195

Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
Pearl S. Buck
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them more strength to relate to people than to dominate them more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
Ti-Grace Atkinson
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
Truth that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
Anne Shannon Monroe
If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Ann Landers
You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
Suzette Haden Elgin
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.
Emily Sargent Councilman
Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.
John McGraw
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T.S Eliot
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Katharine Hepburn
Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.
James Thurber
The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
William F. Halsey
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
Henry Miller
If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.
Florence Scovel Shinn
There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.
Anaïs Nin
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.
Ben Ames Williams
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.
Rollo May
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
E. H. Chapin
(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
William T. Sherman
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
John F Kennedy
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.
John F Kennedy
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
Woody Allen
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.
Mason Cooley
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
John Ciardi
My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
o.henry
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country
Louisa May Alcott
I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.
John Ciardi
Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.
H.L. Mencken
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Bolton
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.
Alexander Chase
Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
Robert Frost