Quotes by Authors - Page 106

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Anonymous
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram Dass
Results are what you expect consequences are what you get.
Anonymous
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.
Storm Jameson
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.
Arlene Blum
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
Hugh Prather
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Dr. Harriet Braiker
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anonymous
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have the more we want. And for this reason we never have it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.
Anonymous
Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.
Charlton Ogburn
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as something for nothing.
Napoleon Hill
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.
Ludwig Lewisohn
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.
Madeleine L'Engle
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Marcelene Cox
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Elizabeth Bowen
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
L.M. Montgomery
Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
George Eliot
A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
Bruce Barton
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Expect nothing and life will be velvet.
Lisa Gardiner
Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
Edward Gibbon
In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Jonathan Swift
Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness.
Anonymous
God hath made of one blood all nations of men.
Anonymous
He'd give the devil ulcers.
Anonymous
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
John F Kennedy
Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.
Anna Chennault
Geography is about maps But biography is about chaps.
E.C. Bentley
Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.
Anonymous
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter
If I look like this I need the trip.
Gloria Swanson
The butler entered the room a solemn procession of one.
P.G. Wodehouse