Quotes by American Authors - Page 75

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
Louis L'Amour
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Gregory Bateson
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone
I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.
Frank Hughes
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
Knock the "t" off the "can't."
George Reeves
Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Abraham Lincoln
I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.
Daniel Boone
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.
Pierre S. DuPont IV
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
General Oliver Prince Smith
I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.
Stan Musial
They've got us surrounded again the poor bastards.
General Creighton W. Abrams
Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.
Jean Bach
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
If you've got it flaunt it. If you do not pretend.
Wally Phillips
It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun but I can twirl one. It looks good.
John Wayne
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie
We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you want a quality act as if you already had it.
William James
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz
Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.
Jacob A. Riis
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
Eric Hoffer
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.
Reggie Jackson
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard
Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
People are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
To make the world a friendly place one must show it a friendly face.
James Whitcomb Riley
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.
Susan RoAne
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.
Muriel Fox
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges
There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Julia Dorr