Quotes by American Authors - Page 96

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
Angelo Patri
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf
Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.
Marcia Wieder
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Helen Keller
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
The world may take your reputation from you but it cannot take your character.
Emma Dunham Kelley
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder an honorable character is your best calling card and that's something anyone can have!
Kathy Ireland
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide as ours has done ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
Carrie Chapman Catt
As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.
Madeleine Albright
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men-and people in general.
Lorraine Hansbury
No matter where I run I meet myself there.
Dorothy Fields
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here no prettily drawn list of good intentions.
Joan Didion
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with which comes the inner voice which says "This is the real me " and when you have found that attitude follow it.
William James
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
Joseph Campbell
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Joan L. Brannon
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.
Milton Lomask
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work not yours.
Cynthia Ozick
In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo May
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
George E. Woodberry
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.
Anaïs Nin
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming
The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal outside of the law.
Emma Goldman
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.
Clara Barton
Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
Joan Baez
Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright
The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.
Margaret Anderson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
James J. Walker
One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.
Will Rogers
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
Margaret Mead
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer