Quotes by American Authors - Page 292

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
Carrie Jones
you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
Jodi Picoult
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.
Mitch Albom
I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.
Christopher Paolini
...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
Isaac Marion
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility
Eleanor Roosevelt
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Wayne W. Dyer
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
John Green
Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.
Wayde Goodall
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whetherit's in the arts, sciences, or business.
Teresa Amabile
The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.
Patrick Ness
His last thought flashed like a mantra over and over again.Let the challenge begin.
Jennifer Probst
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.
Cheryl Richardson
...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.
Gayle Forman
Every challenge in your life works out in the long run. If you can adopt this mindset, you’ll face your challenges with the knowledge and courage that it all works out in the end. You’ll no longer fear them and you’ll look forward to the lessons to be learned from every experience...
James A. Murphy
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Okay", I breathed. "Then what will it take?" I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up.""Miss it."I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about.
Tarryn Fisher
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.
Chris Hedges
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
Veronica Roth
Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge.
Richard J. Borden
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
M. Scott Peck
If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!
Kemi Sogunle
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
Larry Niven
Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter.” The Grand Seneschal shrugged. “The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?” “Fire,” she said. “He would not,” said the Seneschal. “You know he would not.
Robin McKinley
Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.
Penelope Douglas
If I really wanted you to love me, I should have presented more of a challenge.” She burrowed deeper into a pillow. “My hair is a mess.” Mikhail sat on the edge of the bed, took the mass of silk in his hands, and gently began to weave the thick strands into a long, loose braid, “If you presented much more of a challenge, little one, my heart would never be able to take it.” He sounded amused.
Christine Feehan
Wesley was playing Soulcalibur IV. And because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’d challenged him.My God, I had to find something I could beat him at!And you know, something about beating the shit out of an animated character really made me feel better. Before I knew it, I wasn’t even worried about Mom or Dad. Things would be okay. They had to be. I just had to be patient and let things happen. And in the meantime, I had to kick Wesley’s ass… or try, at least.
Kody Keplinger
Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.
Carmine Savastano
I could definitely rise to the challenge of re-inventing comfort food. Neufchatel and low-fat sour cream were my friends! Low-carb pasta with omega-3s and protein were the greatest inventions ever! I'd had luck using all of them.Granted, even though I couldn't resist a good fatty slice of prime rib every now and then, and Fromager d'Affinois bursting into cream in my mouth was like heaven for me- and certainly I had the curves to show for it- but even if I didn't follow a strict diet, I could certainly cook one!
Beth Harbison
Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
Steve Maraboli
Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.
Simone Elkeles
Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
Beth Fantaskey
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
Brandon Sanderson
What is the matter with you?""You want an alphabetical list?
Elisa Nader
If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.
Tina Fey
I didn’t think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse.” “But you’re so calm,” she observed.“That’s usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.
G.A. Aiken
Any problem, and I emphasize "any" problem, represents our inability to consciously connect to our Source in the moment.
Wayne W. Dyer
Be the solution, not the problem.
Debasish Mridha
You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?
Dave Eggers
Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.
Debasish Mridha
You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.
Debasish Mridha
Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to.
Debasish Mridha
Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.
Emily Croy Barker
The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a major problem from poorly tested products and it should be dealt with sooner rather than later by government regulators.
Steven Magee
The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications.
Steven Magee
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
Teddy Roosevelt
If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
Karen M McManus
Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions aren’t your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or say,don’t you dare doubt your worthor the beauty of your truth.Just keep on shining like you do.
Scott Stabile
Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.
Sara Pennypacker