Quotes by American Authors - Page 25

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
William Stafford
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry Kissinger
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.
Jane Fonda
Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Bernie S. Siegel
Glee! The great storm is over!
Emily Dickinson
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
Dorothea Lange
The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.
Lillian Gish
Anything other than death is a minor injury.
Bill Muncey
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!
Phyllis Battelle
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.
John Mason Brown
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
Excellence costs a great deal.
May Sarton
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homolka
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.
Theodore Parker
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
Abraham Lincoln
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward Beecher
Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What worries you masters you.
Haddon W. Robinson
Don't hurry don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
Walter Hagen
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon " he said with a twinkle in his eye "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."
Dorothea Kent
It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.
Josh Billings
A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
Mignon G. Eberhart
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
Gertrude Stein
That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest Then-do not worry.
Charles F. Deems
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
Russell Green
Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
Mike Mansfield
If you see ten troubles coming down the road you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many have For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.
Nixon Waterman
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
James Reston
What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell
How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
Diane Arbus
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Edgar Watson Howe
There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
Josh Billings
A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
When you first learn to love hell you will be in heaven.
Thaddeus Golas
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.
Amelia Earhart