Quotes by American Authors - Page 42

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
James Russell Lowell
In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.
Kahlil Gibran
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.
Charles Horton Cooley
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Willa Cather
Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The less we know the more we suspect.
H. W. Shaw
Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
James Fenimore Cooper
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
Somebodys said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't " but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.
Christian Nestell Bovee
If you lose you're going to be fired and if you win you only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbra Streisand
There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.
Richard Armour
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it.
Jonathan Winters
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges take away the insecurities let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank A. Clark
If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C.Fields
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Conant
As soon as you find the key to success somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
This guy put the suck in success.
David Letterman
She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West
Behind every successful man is a woman - with nothing to wear.
L. Grant Glickman
Success didn't spoil me I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
General Omar N. Bradley
Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
When there is no feeling of accomplishment children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
Joseph Whitney
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
Phillips Brooks
How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
Malcolm Forbes
The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.
Charles M. Schwab
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
William James
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.
Tommy Lasorda
All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
Robert Henri
Success is a great healer.
Gertrude Atherton
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippman
The insight to see possible new paths the courage to try them the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.
Mary Parker Follett
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
A.W. Tozer
If I do have some success I'd like to enjoy it for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
Leontyne Price
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price
Marconi invented radio but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.
Ralph Edwards
Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.
Dottie Walters
A woman who is loved always has success.
Vicki Baum
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas