Quotes by American Authors - Page 91

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John Caldwell Calhoun
Rocked in the cradle of the deep I lay me down in peace to sleep.
Emma Willard
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden
The eye is the jewel of the body.
Henry David Thoreau
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing to do but work Nothing to eat but food Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude.
Ben King
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie D. Babcock
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.
Louis L'Amour
If you stop struggling then you stop life.
Huey Newton
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
Henry Miller
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
Julia Ward Howe
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
Meridel Le Sueur
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
Diane Glancy
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
Shelley Winters
Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"
Joaquin Miller
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
Mary Parker Follett
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.
Rosie Perez
People with good intentions never give up!
Jane Smiley
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
Louis L'Amour
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.
Billy Martin
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
Ernest Hemingway
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
Roseanne Barr
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tead
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.
Joe David Bellamy
As long as one keeps searching the answers come.
Joan Baez
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.
Anne Lamott
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.
Archie Moore
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
Judith Rossner
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.
Michelle Kwan
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
People can bear anything.
Philip Slater
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!
Ben Johnson
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson