Quotes by American Authors - Page 35

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.
Thomas R. Marshall
Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.
Louis E. Thayer
Here's to your good health and your family's good health and may you all live long and prosper.
Washington Irving
A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.
Dowling Bartholomew
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."
Theodore Tilton
A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.
Benjamin F. Taylor
These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine
Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
H.L. Mencken
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.
Elizabeth Akers Allen
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.
Gamaliel Bradford
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Human successes like human failures are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.
Patty H. Sampson
There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.
Anaïs Nin
I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
Marge Piercy
Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
Inspiration does not come like a blot nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
Brenda Euland
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
Sow an act reap a habit sow a habit reap a character sow a character reap a destiny.
G. D. Boardman
Great issues develop from small beginnings.
Norman Vincent Peale
It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.
Dorothy Baker
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Haskins
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts sparked here and there by minor incidents warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places at different times the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.
Marilyn Ferguson
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
Large streams from little mountains flow tall oaks from little acorns grow.
David Everett
Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.
Muriel Rukeyser
We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job huge amounts of money a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If on the other hand happiness depends on a good breakfast flowers in the yard a drink or a nap then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Benjamin Franklin
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
Life is a great bundle of little things.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Inches make a champion.
Vince Lombardi
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.
Louis L'Amour
You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Bruce Catton
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement.
Kurt Lewin