Quotes by Authors - Page 122

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace harmony health love and abundance. Then whenever doubt anxiety or fear try to call me they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
James Ramsey Ullman
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard Devos
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Maxwell Maltz
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Greg Anderson
The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault
Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
Peter McWilliams
Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale yellow balloon letting it go watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.
Barbara Markoff
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Bernie Siegel
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Miller
There are two big forces at work external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes earthquakes floods disasters illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
Leo Buscaglia
There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W Clement Stone
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud and when you have found it continue to look at it rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.
A. A. Willitts
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.
Joseph Newton
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar
Positive thoughts (joy happiness fulfillment achievement worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm calm well-being ease energy love). - Negative thoughts (judgment unworthiness mistrust resentment fear) produce negative results (tension anxiety alienation anger fatigue).
Peter McWilliams
Peace like charity begins at home.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It takes two to make peace.
John F Kennedy
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
It isn't enough to talk about peace one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it one must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Norman Cousins
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
Gerald Jampolsky
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
John F Kennedy
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own having a dog makes you rich.
Louis Sabin
Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.
James Thurber
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
Michael Rosen
Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.
Gene Hill
Cats are angels with fur.
Sark
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
Jane Pauley
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Colette
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce
That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
George Orwell
There is no such thing as inner peace there is only nervousness and death.
Fran Lebowitz
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
Daphne du Maurier
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
Bernie S. Siegel
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
The peace is won by accompanying God into the battle.
Eivind Josef Berggrav
When we believe that God is Father we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay
This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.
George MacDonald