Quotes by Authors - Page 60

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm "O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
Michel de Montaigne
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly "I was wrong."
B.C. Forbes
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
Eric Hoffer
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
When you blame others you give up your power to change.
Anonymous
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.
O. J. Simpson
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
James A. Worsham
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Jules Renard
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
Dr. William Menninger
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
George du Maurier
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
Some pursue happiness others create it.
Anonymous
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
Rosalia Castro
The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame.
David E. Bresler
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
Eric Hoffer
We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
Some leaders are born women.
Geraldine Ferraro
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Make good use of bad rubbish.
Elizabeth Beresford
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.
W.H. Auden
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
Christian Bovee
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Geri Weitzman
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover
I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.
Georgie Anne Geyer
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.
Louis L'Amour
You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
I woman give birth: and this time to myself.
Alma Villanueva
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castañeda
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
Joan Lunden
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.
Louis L'Amour
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
Simone de Beauvoir
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Hermann Hesse
There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.
Margaret Mitchell
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig