Quotes by American Authors - Page 208

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
George Matthew Adams
When someone does something well applaud I You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.
Thornton Wilder
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
Karl Menninger
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
Rollo May
Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Ann Landers
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Arthur Somers Roche
I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
Katherine Paterson
I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
Erica Jong
Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
Norman Cousins
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
Malcolm Forbes
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
William James
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Abraham Maslow
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing rather than fear of being killed was the most common cause of battle failure and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
S. L. A. Marshall
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
Althea Gibson
The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
Eloise Ristad
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Barbara Hershey
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.
Mark N. Cohen
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.
Nancy Kerrigan
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner
Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.
Ronald Rood
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
Marianne Williamson
Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out.
Dr. Karl Menninger
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
Dr. Frank Crane
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas E. Dewey
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.
Helen Gurley Brown
If you are afraid for your future you don't have a present.
James Petersen
Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
Mary Bokin Chesnut
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Charles J. Ingersoll
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contain'd I stand and look at them long and long They do not sweat and whine about their condition They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God Not one is dissatisfied not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Walt Whitman