Quotes by American Authors - Page 58

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.
Kathryn Murray
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Henry David Thoreau
A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Barbara Walters
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn
Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.
Ruth P. Freedman
To find the good life you must become yourself.
Dr. Bill Jackson
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.
Martha Bacon
I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
I is who I is.
Tom Peterson
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley
Who I am is the best I can be.
Leontyne Price
Love your self's self where it lives.
Anne Sexton
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beverly Sills
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
Denise Shekerjian
Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.
Lorraine Hansbury
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.
Maude Adams
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.
Gail Hamilton
I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
Cherish forever what makes you unique 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
Bette Midler
Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland
The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansbury
You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
Martha Graham
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial the alienation from the sources of our strength.
Rachel Carson
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
Sarah Josepha Hale
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.
Arlene Croce
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
Sharon Begley
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
Sharon Begley
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
Margaret Anderson
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
Ellen Sue Stern
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
Louis L'Amour
I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
Joanna T. Steichen
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.
Marlon Brando
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi Goldberg
When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!
Rusty Berkus
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.
William Bennett
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.
Raquel Welch
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.
Walt Whitman
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Bernard M. Baruch
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.
Janet Flanner
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Edna Ferber