Quotes by Authors - Page 167

If Jesus was Jewish how come he has a Mexican name?
Anonymous
God seems to have the receiver off the hook.
Arthur Koestler
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.
Helen Keller
How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.
Jack London
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
Joyce Carol Oates
I think the purpose of life is to be useful to be responsible to be honorable to be compassionate. It is after all to matter: to count to stand for something to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo. C Rosten
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense to be emotionally sincere to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings one's work one's beliefs.
Karen Horney
If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
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
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tyron Edwards
The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.
Corrie ten Boom
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cather
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
Pearl S. Buck
If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.
Kathleen Norris
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
Madonna
Growth is not concerned with itself.
Meridel Le Sueur
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Joanna Field
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
Marcia Wieder
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
On the human chessboard all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.
C.S. Lewis
Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.
John F Kennedy
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing
I was born to be a remarkable woman it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
Marie Bashkirtseff
Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection we have forfeited our manhood.
Stephen McKenna
He who demands little gets it.
Ellen Glasgow
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.
Rachel Carson
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.
Jill Robinson
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never any of us are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Katherine Anne Porter
Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.
Barbara Bush
I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
Pearl S. Buck
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather
Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.
Helen Gurley Brown
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
Florence Griffith Joyner
When one paints an ideal one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
J. Hawes
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
Charlotte Bunch
It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.
Sheila Ballantyne
I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
Martina Navratilova
I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May Alcott