Quotes by Authors - Page 52

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler
It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dalí
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
The time has come the Walrus said "To talk of many things Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."
Lewis Carroll
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Willa Cather
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.
Anne Brontë
Beware of him that telleth tales.
Anonymous
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde
Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
Anonymous
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.
Samuel Butler
Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
Anonymous
A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Marguerite de Valois
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
James Fenimore Cooper
Make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de Cervantes
One swallow alone does not make the summer.
Miguel de Cervantes
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexander Dumas
Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Progress means taking risks for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.
Anonymous
There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.
Richard Armour
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Anonymous
As soon as you find the key to success somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
If at first you succeed don't take any more stupid chances.
Anonymous
Behind every successful man is a woman - with nothing to wear.
L. Grant Glickman
The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.
D. O. Flynn
When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me."
Anonymous
Success didn't spoil me I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
When there is no feeling of accomplishment children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
Joseph Whitney
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
Phillips Brooks
I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.
G. W. Follin
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.
Harold Loukes
Out of the strain of the Doing into the peace of the Done.
Julia Louise Woodruff
Success is a great healer.
Gertrude Atherton
The insight to see possible new paths the courage to try them the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.
Mary Parker Follett
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
A.W. Tozer
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
Anita Roddick
Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.
Dottie Walters
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.
Ann Landers
I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get.
Anonymous
To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Prince
If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone de Beauvoir
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
Robert Fulghum
There must be more to life than having everything!
Maurice Sendak
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
Samuel Butler