Quotes by Authors - Page 117

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
If you prepare for old age old age comes sooner.
Anonymous
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.
Marie Corelli
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Virginia Satir
Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance or brusqueness-or some provocation.
Robert Hugh Benson
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes
Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Henry David Thoreau
If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.
Simone de Beauvoir
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.
Simone de Beauvoir
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
On the human chessboard all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
Opportunities multiply as they are seized they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
John Wicker
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.
Edward McCabe
Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?
Gretel Ehrlich
Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
Eddie Rickenbacker
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Margery Allingham
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
Elizabeth Dole
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande
Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan Taylor
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
L. P. Jacks
One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.
Art Sisson
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
Bette Davis
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Franchise Sagan
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
Catharine Marshall
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
Shirley Maclaine
Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe
You can promote your healing by your thinking.
James E. Sweeney
Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
Ann Landers
A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.
Margaret Deland
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.
Anonymous
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
Norman Cousins
Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy