Quotes by Authors - Page 100

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.
Anonymous
Live with no time out.
Simone de Beauvoir
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
Judith Krantz
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
G.K. Chesterton
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
Richard L. Evans
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart
I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Katharine Hepburn
We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin.
Anonymous
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.
Jane Alexander
When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
Anonymous
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.
Anonymous
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B.C. Forbes
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
B.C. Forbes
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night when deep sleep falleth on men.
Anonymous
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred Friendley
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton Fadiman
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.
Harry A. Overstreet
By evil report and good report.
Anonymous
Spick and span new.
Miguel de Cervantes
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Elizabeth Fuller
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
The image of God cut in ebony.
Thomas Fuller
Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
Countee Cullen
Necessity the mother of invention.
Anonymous
Necessity has no law.
Anonymous
When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Victor Hugo
Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Mary Jean Iron
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Whether one is twenty forty or sixty whether one has succeeded failed or just muddled along whether yesterday was full of sun or storm or one of those dull days with no weather at all life begins each morning I
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox
The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly nestle your chin into the grass and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.
Malcolm Margolin
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
Gérard de Nerval
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless remain that way. Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
Max Lucado
It was one of those perfect summer days - the sun was shining a breeze was blowing the birds were singing and the lawnmower was broken.
James Dent
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.
D.H. Lawrence
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Alice Walker
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you'll become a poet.
Serge Bouchard