Quotes by American Authors - Page 3378

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Maya Angelou
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Norman Vincent Peale
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
John Green
Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
Patricia Cornwell
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
George Washington Burnap
Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Harper Lee
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Anaïs Nin
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.
C. JoyBell C.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Louis L'Amour
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Rick Riordan
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
Randy Pausch
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
Peter S Beagle
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?
Jack Kornfield
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
Sarah Dessen
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
Rick Riordan
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.
C. JoyBell C.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
George Carlin
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Margaret Walker
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
P.C. Cast
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Try a little harder to be a little better.
Gordon B. Hinckley
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Laurie Halse Anderson
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
Edward J. Stieglitz
What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?
Charles M. Schulz
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
Bette Midler
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Sarah Dessen
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
Chuck Palahniuk
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
Lilith Saintcrow
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
Christopher Paolini
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
Kathryn Stockett
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
C. JoyBell C.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour
You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
Jim Morrison
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.
Taylor Swift
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney Company
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")
Maya Angelou
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
John Green
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
C. JoyBell C.