Quotes by Authors - Page 62

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
André Maurois
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
H. G. Bohn
No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
Katherine Graham
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.
Boethius
Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.
Charlotte Bunch
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
Cynthia Ozick
I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I am because my little dog knows me.
Gertrude Stein
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck
I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.
Fay Weldon
I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.
Raquel Welch
I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.
Rosie O'Donnell
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.
Anaïs Nin
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.
Phyllis McGinley
To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.
Phyllis McGinley
God wastes nothing.
Jan Karon
Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James
Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
Barbara Bush
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. LeGuin
There is a potential heroine in every woman.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.
Sylvia Pankhurst
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
Flannery O'Connor
It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.
Frances Partridge
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Amy Tan
If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
Marilyn Vos Savant
Your thorns are the best part of you.
Marianne Moore
Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.
Jean Lush
Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.
Isak Dinesen
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.
Stephen King
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings they gradually begin to seem mild harmless rather engaging little things not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Margaret Halsey
To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
Nancy Friday
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
Joshua L. Liebman
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
Oriana Fallaci
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Carol Shields
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
G.K. Chesterton
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.
Alice Koller
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision action and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. ... We find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under conditions whatever.
Anonymous
Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.
Paule Marshall
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
Thomas à Kempis
Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
Charlotte P. Gilman
We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.
Agatha Christie
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Mary Lou Retton
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
Karen Horney
Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.
Patricia Fripp
As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Susan Faludi
To understand is to forgive even oneself.
Alexander Chase