Quotes by Authors - Page 63

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
Linda Thomson
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.
Patricia Fripp
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
Caroline Bird
We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.
Carl Jung
If I could know me I could know the universe.
Shirley Maclaine
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris
To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.
Cynthia Propper Seton
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.
Sharon Anthony Bower
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Joan Didion
The less said the better.
Jane Austen
Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Anaïs Nin
A gossip is one who talks to you about others a bore is one who talks to you about himself and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
Lisa Kirk
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Gertrude Stein
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Hannah Moore
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
Handle them carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.
Pearl Strachan Hurd
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.
Florence Hurst Harriman
Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
Doris Grumbach
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
It was enough just to sit there without words.
Louise Erdrich
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.
Marie de France
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
Geraldine Ferraro
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
Millicent Fenwick
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
George Eliot
When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Vita Sackville-West
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.
Mary F. Robinson
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.
Christine Downing
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.
Betty Boothroyd
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
Margaret Mead
That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.
Mary Parker Follett
As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.
Taylor Caldwell
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
Amy Alcott
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
Phyllis McGinley
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Gail Sheehy
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough.
Gail Sheehy
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
Waiting is one of the great arts.
Margery Allingham
Without discipline there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Anonymous
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
L.M. Montgomery
Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."
Betty MacDonald
A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.
Osa Johnson
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino
If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher