Quotes by Authors - Page 64

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
H. P. Liddon
I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.
Caroline Begelow LeRow
When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
Myrtle Reed
Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.
Marcelene Cox
Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.
Margaret Oliphant
I listen and give input only if somebody asks.
Barbara Bush
A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott
You must have discipline to have fun.
Julia Child
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
Marie Chapian
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
Gertrude Atherton
To be confident is to act in faith.
Bernard Bynion
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna
A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.
Arthur Dobrin
He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
Floyd V. Filson
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
B.C. Forbes
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
Nathaniel Branden
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
Joan Rivers
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Penelope Keith
Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.
Samuel Butler
I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.
Mary Garden
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Joan Rivers
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Margaret Witter Fuller
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Raquel Welch
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.
Mary Pettibone Poole
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.
Flannery O'Connor
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
Shirley Lord
Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.
Margaret Gatty
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.
Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
Gladys Taber
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.
Roy L. Smith
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Conquer but never triumph.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Helen Van Slyke