Quotes by American Authors - Page 3373

Do your best and let God do the rest.
Ben Carson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
Jon Krakauer
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Bruce Lee
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Anne Lamott
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Ellen DeGeneres
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
Henry Ford
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Abraham Verghese
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Ronald Reagan
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Step follows step,Hope follows Courage,Set your face towards danger,Set your heart on victory.
Gail Carson Levine
It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
Randy Pausch
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
Helen Keller
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.
Randy Pausch
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.
Robert M. Drake
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Done is better than perfect.
Sheryl Sandberg
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.
Steve Maraboli
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T.S Eliot
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
Audrey Niffenegger
I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people.
C. JoyBell C.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Ben Carson
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
Joyce Meyer
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!
Chuck Palahniuk
no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith
Gerard Way
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
Anything under God's control is never out of control.
Charles R. Swindoll
No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pittacus Lore
The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.
Steve Maraboli
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
John Boyle O'Reilly
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.
James R. Sherman
Anything is possible. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Eudora Welty
I am who I am; no more, no less.
Terry Goodkind
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
Anthony Robbins
And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
Stephen Chbosky
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
Chris Colfer
Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.
Susan Ee
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
Joseph Campbell
There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!
Dan Millman
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.
Max Lucado
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
Tyler Perry
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
Jon Krakauer
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
Anna Godbersen