Quotes by American Authors - Page 76

Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
William J. H. Boetcker
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Toni Cade Bambara
When people asked I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick the worse I got. Finally I started saying "I'm getting better." It took a while but then I started to feel better too.
Michael Hirsch
Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers administrators even gofers-at least for a while.
Lillian Vernon
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.
Riane Eisler
My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.
Susan Powter
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Lady Bird Johnson
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
Shere Hite
It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Vivian Greene
If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman
We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
Margaret Mead
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
William Graham Sumner
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty you will get them no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself in what life will do for you cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz
I made the decision. I'm accountable.
Janet Reno
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Virginia Satir
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found that if you love life life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul Jones
Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Henry David Thoreau
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson
Like begets like honesty begets honesty trust trust and so on.
James F. Bell
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Franklin Kettering
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
Opportunities multiply as they are seized they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
John Wicker
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Positive thinking is the key to success in business education pro football anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.
Edward McCabe
Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?
Gretel Ehrlich
Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
Eddie Rickenbacker
What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?
Jane Adams
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
Elizabeth Dole
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.
Margo Jones
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande
True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.
Louise Bogan
Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan Taylor
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
James W. Fulbright
Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.
Vince Lombardi
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.
Elinor Wylie
I don't believe in pessimism.
Clint Eastwood
There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson