Quotes by American Authors - Page 198

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too
Theresa Helburn
Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
Woody Hayes
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott
It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Mary Henle
When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
Lou Holtz
I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury
One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
Judith Viorst
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford
What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.
Louis L'Amour
I don't want people who want to dance I want people who have to dance.
George Balanchine
Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a stranger to half measures.
Marita Golden
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.
Sherry Lansing
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
Jane Adams
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
General William T. Sherman
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.
General George S. Patton
You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.
Lee Trevino
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
James A. Garfield
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
Evelyn Scott
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.
Henry Miller
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Thomas Paine
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness
I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx
An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Justice Arthur Goldberg
As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.
Elbert Hubbard
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Elbert Hubbard
We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Harry Golden
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S Eliot
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
John Ciardi
Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
George Santayana
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Will Durant
Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
W.H. Auden
There is such a thing as too much couth.
S.J. Perelman
The human race has improved everything except the human race.
Adlai Stevenson
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Harvey Allen
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
Walter Colton
Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."
Richard Jeni