Quotes by American Authors - Page 77

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
Agnes Repplier
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Dolores Huerta
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
Bette Davis
They never raised a statue to a critic.
Martha Graham
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Tyne Daly
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
Catharine Marshall
The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
Thomas A. Buckner
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
Shirley Maclaine
Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe
You can promote your healing by your thinking.
James E. Sweeney
Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.
Mildred Davis
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Jerry Augustine
Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
Ann Landers
A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.
Margaret Deland
The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.
Mildred Davis
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
Norman Cousins
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
What you think means more than anything else in your life.
George Matthew Adams
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.
James A. Farley
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis Marion Crawford
As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen
If you think it's going to rain it will.
Clint Eastwood
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.
Henry B. Wilson
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
Dr. Frank Crane
Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
Orison Swett Marden
Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.
Henry Ford
I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
Eddie Rickenbacker
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag
A man is literally what he thinks.
James Lane Allen
If you are going to think black think positive about it. Don't think down on it or think it is something in your way. And this way when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is everybody will hear you.
Leontyne Price
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
Mary Church Terrell
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett
When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.
Judith Martin
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.
Zora Neale Hurston
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Peace Pilgrim