Quotes by Authors - Page 188

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Anonymous
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
John Oxenham
There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.
Edgar Watson Howe
O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!
Thomas Hood
Go to bed early get up early-this is wise.
Mark Twain
Shed as you do your garments your daily sins whether of omission or commission and you will wake a free man with a new life.
Sir William Osier
Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas C. Haliburton
The camel at the close of day Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.
Anonymous
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
Anonymous
Judge each day not by it's harvest but by the seeds you plant.
Anonymous
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy L. Smith
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.
James Froude
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
Rudyard Kipling
Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
Buckminster Fuller
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
Jacques Cousteau
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
Charles Lindbergh
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven Wagner Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman
No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions new aspirations new efforts new vision. Compete with yourself set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone he has failed to feed it.
Anonymous
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
No one grows old by living only by losing interest in living.
Marie Beynon Ray
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
Louis Auchincloss
It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Knowledge is power but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!
George Matthew Adams
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
Thomas N. Carruther
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.
David V. A. Ambrose
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
B.C. Forbes
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
Hannah Moore
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
Julia Child
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart if you want it to work.
Susanna Clark
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason controlled by caution sound in theory practical in application reflects confidence spreads good cheer raises morale inspires associates arouses loyalty and laughs at adversity it is beyond price.
Coleman Cox
Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Edward L. Curtis
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Margery Allingham
Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
Judith Krantz
Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.
Louisa Thomas
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
Christina Stead
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't fake.
P.D. James
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most believe in most strongly expect on the deepest level and imagine most vividly.
Shakti Gawain
What is man but his passion?
Robert Penn Warren
You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great generous and true without it we are little false and mean.
L. E. Landon
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Charles A. Cerami