Quotes by American Authors - Page 200

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
R. H. Dana
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell
Cheer up the worst is yet to come.
Philander Johnson
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives.
Barbara W. Winder
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.
Martha Washington
Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.
John Boyle O'Reilly
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing
Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl Menninger
He liked to like people therefore people liked him.
Mark Twain
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.
Woody Allen
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Ashley Montagu
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.
William Saroyan
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
John Barth
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
Josh Billings
If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.
D L Moody
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
Character is that which can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
Woodrow Wilson
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.
Walt Whitman
Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.
Alan Jay Lerner
It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Eric Hoffer
Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger
If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.
Ezra Pound
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.
Mason Cooley
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
H.L. Mencken
Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
Things do not change we change.
Henry David Thoreau
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.
Carl Rogers
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
Odell Shepard
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions and you change all.
Vachel Lindsay
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
All things must change To something new to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin
We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
Barbara Hershey
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different.
Nora Ephron
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.
Kristin Hunter