Quotes by Authors - Page 125

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.
Lois Korey
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
Allen Klein
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
Pauline Rose Chance
A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
Jean Craighead George
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
Bonaro Overstreet
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
Therese of Lisieux
Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.
Alice Duer Miller
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.
Marcelene Cox
Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.
Colette
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Brontë
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
Margaret Mead
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.
Joan Didion
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B.C. Forbes
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
George Eliot
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
Thomas Fuller
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point in the face of all the propaganda is how few Americans actually live this way.
Louise Kapp Howe
I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.
Jerry Hall
Guys think that if a girl is pretty she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or I've had to ask them.
Brooke Shields
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.
Germaine Greer
Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
Milton R. Sapirstein
Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.
Christine Lahti
For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
Jamie Lee Curtis
When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.
Laura Baugh
I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me but they don't.
LaToya Jackson
People see you as an object not as a person and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen
Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.
Carol Alt
Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.
Paulina Porizkova
Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean period. So you know I don't like myself.
Elizabeth Taylor
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.
Cynthia Ozick
I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.
Elizabeth Taylor
When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Joyce Carol Oates
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.
Elizabeth Heller
A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite lose her waistline her bust-line her ability to bear a child even her sense of humor but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality her femininity.
Barbara Gordon
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
Time-our youth-it never really goes does it? It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmyer
I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-I've worked hard for them!
Maggie Kuhn
It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!
Alice James