Quotes by Authors - Page 116

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.
Anonymous
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
Anonymous
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.
L.M. Montgomery
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone
I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.
Frank Hughes
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
Anonymous
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
Eric Hoffer
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West
Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
People by and large will relate to the image you project.
Anonymous
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.
Susan RoAne
If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Julia Dorr
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
William J. H. Boetcker
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
Elizabeth Charles
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Toni Cade Bambara
If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
When people asked I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick the worse I got. Finally I started saying "I'm getting better." It took a while but then I started to feel better too.
Michael Hirsch
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.
Riane Eisler
My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.
Susan Powter
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Lady Bird Johnson
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
Shere Hite
It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Vivian Greene
If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman
We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
Margaret Mead
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty you will get them no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself in what life will do for you cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley