Quotes by American Authors - Page 46

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods ignoring principles is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
Agnes Repplier
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is that old ABC-Ability Breaks and Courage.
Charles Luckman
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah show up."
Tom T. Hall
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team.
Benjamin F. Fairless
Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
George R. Kirkpatrick
The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
A. Jackson King
I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry S. Truman
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.
Damon Runyon
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
Earl Nightingale
Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Artur Rubinstein
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Success is that old ABC- ability breaks and courage.
Charles Luckman
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends To appreciate beauty To find the best in others To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child a garden patch or a redeemed social condition To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived That is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Alexander Chase
Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
Ambrose Bierce
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton
Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.
Harold Sherman
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.
John Paul Jones
I have found adventure in flying in world travel in business and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Jacqueline Cochran
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
Edgar Watson Howe
General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."
Sherwood Anderson
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb
When thinking won't cure fear action will.
W Clement Stone
Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.
Christian Bovee
If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinger
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.
Erica Jong
I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.
Connie Chung
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
Margaret Bourke-White
You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes