Quotes by Authors - Page 168

There is no such thing as expecting too much.
Susan Cheever
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.
James Conrad
From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.
Mark Twain
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
G.K. Chesterton
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
The true object of human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
Don Marquis
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.
Rebecca West
Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.
Gladys Taber
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
I care not what your education is elaborate or nothing what your mental calibre is great or small that man who concentrates all his energies of body mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
T. DeWitt Talmage
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.
André Gide
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Lord Chesterfield
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea one great overmastering purpose overshadowing all his aims and guiding and controlling his entire life.
Julius Bate
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Thomas Fuller
Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
James Reston
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Marcel Proust
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
Mary Parker Follett
As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
Phillips Brooks
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
André Maurois
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
Anna Jameson
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
Rosie O'Donnell
If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia Woolf
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
Frances Marion
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Christine Lavin
For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
Miles Franklin
Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
Helen Gurley Brown
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
Bonnie Blair
No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
Bonnie Blair
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes but above me and within me there was a spirit stronger than them all.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.
Simone de Beauvoir
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.
Nancy Ditz
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt
The purpose of life is life.
Karl Lagerfeld
Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.
Anonymous
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
Napoleon Hill
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.
Maurice Switzer
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt for which we strive and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
George Matthew Adams
The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.
Erich Kästner
If you don't know where you are going how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
Stephen McKenna
Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.
Anonymous
Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!
Anonymous