Quotes by American Authors - Page 3398

Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
Roy T. Bennett
Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.
Roy T. Bennett
Fear robs you of your freedom to make the right choice in life that can bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. On the other side of fear, lies freedom. If you want to grow, you need to be brave and take risks. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing.
Roy T. Bennett
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.
Henry Rollins
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
Zora Neale Hurston
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
Bill Watterson
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
Ernest Hemingway
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard
But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
Libba Bray
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.
Colleen Hoover
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
Candace Bushnell
Perfectly ImperfectWe have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal force of gravity gives them a shared destination, the expansive space in the air gives each snowflake the opportunity to take their own path. They are on the same journey, but each takes a different path.Along this gravity-driven journey, some snowflakes collide and damage each other, some collide and join together, some are influenced by wind... there are so many transitions and changes that take place along the journey of the snowflake. But, no matter what the transition, the snowflake always finds itself perfectly shaped for its journey. I find parallels in nature to be a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration. One of these parallels is of snowflakes and us. We, too, are all headed in the same direction. We are being driven by a universal force to the same destination. We are all individuals taking different journeys and along our journey, we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths, we become altered... we take different physical forms. But at all times we too are 100% perfectly imperfect. At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey. I’m not perfect for your journey and you’re not perfect for my journey, but I’m perfect for my journey and you’re perfect for your journey. We’re heading to the same place, we’re taking different routes, but we’re both exactly perfect the way we are. Think of what understanding this great orchestration could mean for relationships. Imagine interacting with others knowing that they too each share this parallel with the snowflake. Like you, they are headed to the same place and no matter what they may appear like to you, they have taken the perfect form for their journey. How strong our relationships would be if we could see and respect that we are all perfectly imperfect for our journey.
Steve Maraboli
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Rick Warren
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
Jason Mraz
No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.
Roy T. Bennett
Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.
Roy T. Bennett
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
Mark Twain
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
Steve Maraboli
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
Arthur Golden
When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.
Jerry Spinelli
We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.
C. JoyBell C.
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
Laini Taylor
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.
Steve Maraboli
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
Dave Eggers
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
Philip K Dick
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Steve Maraboli
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.
C. JoyBell C.
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
E B White
Great Leaders Create More LeadersGood leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.
Roy T. Bennett
Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
Roy T. Bennett
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.
Roy T. Bennett
To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.
Roy T. Bennett
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
Sarah Dessen
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger A. Caras
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
John Green
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
Cormac McCarthy
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
Bohdi Sanders
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
Bill Ayers
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Will Durant
If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?
Rainbow Rowell
There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S Eliot
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
Cormac McCarthy
One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.
Roy T. Bennett
Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.
Roy T. Bennett
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
Chuck Palahniuk
The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
Roy T. Bennett
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.
Nicholas Sparks