Quotes by Authors - Page 55

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
I feel that one must deliberate then act must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.
L.M. Montgomery
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman
That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.
Mary Field Belenky
Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.
Susan RoAne
Networking is an enrichment program not an entitlement program.
Susan RoAne
Remember the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.
Macrina Wiederkehr
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it greater understanding growing compassion came to me.
Catharine Marshall
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osier
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
L. G. Elliott
Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.
Anonymous
Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
George R. Kirkpatrick
The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
A. Jackson King
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.
Damon Runyon
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
Earl Nightingale
Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams
Success is not so much what you are but rather what you appear to be.
Anonymous
It takes time to be a success but time is all it takes.
Anonymous
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
Everything bows to success even grammar.
Victor Hugo
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Alexander Chase
Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
Ambrose Bierce
Fear is faithlessness.
George MacDonald
I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton
Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.
Harold Sherman
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
George MacDonald
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.
Anonymous
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
Edgar Watson Howe
General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."
Sherwood Anderson
Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
André Maurois
When thinking won't cure fear action will.
W Clement Stone
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
André Gide
Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.
Christian Bovee
If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
Ding Ling
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.
Erica Jong
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that even if it does not produce the courage of a hero at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
Laurens van der Post
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Anonymous