Quotes by Authors - Page 21

You are no greater than the adversity you can handle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your next victory is behind your next test.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great tests precede great blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the pressure, the greater the treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity is the door to opportunity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity is opportunity inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Present trials strengthen you for future blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your breaking point is often your blessing point.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity is the evil twin of reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain frees you from complacency.Tears free you from sorrow.Weaknesses free you from pride.Adversity frees from boredom.Challenges free you from monotony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind is greater than your problems,your heart is greater than your troubles,your soul is greater than your temptations,and your God is greater than your obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers have to stretch to bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers still have to stretch to bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not lose its beauty because it grew on concrete.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When darkness comes,stars shine.When storms come,plants flourish.When adversity comes,champions triumph.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who runs from a challenge runs from an opportunity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds pour out oil when pressed.Grapes pour out wine when squeezed.Herbs pour out medicine when pounded.Flowers pour out perfume when crushed.The gifted pour out excellence when tested.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your back may be pushed against the wall, but your brain is not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As water downs ships but upholds leaves,and as fires burn cities but refines gold,so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be proud of your struggles. Adversity brings out the best in us.
Avijeet Das
It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish. If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. If you bomb a city, you leave behind death and destruction. But you create a community of remote misses. If you take away a mother or a father, you cause suffering and despair. But one time in ten, out of that despair rises as indomitable force. You see the giant and the shepherd in the Valley of Elah and your eye is drawn to the man with sword and shield and the glittering armor. But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.
Malcolm Gladwell
Writing is a team sport.
Chris White
Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.
Harold Frederic
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
Pearl S. Buck
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
P.G. Wodehouse
During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant of those lessons is that I still have many lessons to learn about out craft.
H.P. Oliver
No matter how entertaining, diverse, concise, or detailed, a writing craft book is, it’s not going to work magic on you, it’s not going to suddenly make you a brilliant writer simply by reading it. You need to use what you read and learn in your own writing. Because that’s when you have those AHA moments. That's when it really sticks.
Jessica Bell
You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.
H.P. Oliver
Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.
Jessica Bell
Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it can also be quite fickle ... If you want to be able to call on inspiration reliably then you need to work on it with regularity. Someone once said that if you only go out with a bucket to collect water when it's raining, sometimes you'll get water. But if you go out with your bucket every day, even when it's not raining, sometimes you'll catch unexpected rain. And also, a strange thing may happen: that the very act of going out with your bucket may actually provoke such rain.
Etienne de L'Amour
...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...
John Geddes
My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
Arthur Plotnik
... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...
John Geddes
I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie
Carl Henegan
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.
Margaret Atwood