Quotes by Authors - Page 65

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Carmen Sylva
I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
Truman Capote
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
Joan Didion
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.
Jane O'Reilly
Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.
Helen Nielsen
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin
Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
Gloria Steinem
Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."
Nancy Hale
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?
Sherwood Anderson
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Marya Mannes
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Brontë
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field piteous all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.
Helen Hunt Jackson
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Monica Baldwin
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
Louisa May Alcott
Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Susan Sontag
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prather
Ultimately love is self approval.
Sondra Ray
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
Bernie S. Siegel
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Maxwell Maltz
Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
Ellen Goodman
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
Mary S. Almanac
So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.
Vita Sackville-West
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.
Jane Roberts
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Anaïs Nin
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able to write.
Robert B. Parker
A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin H. Chapin
It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
Charlotte P. Gilman
To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.
Anonymous
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.
James A. Pike
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
Colleen Dewhurst
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?
Sherwood Anderson
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.
Ursula K. LeGuin
No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
Hugh Prather
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Dr. Harriet Braiker
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
William Styron
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.
Kathryn Murray
I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!
Marie Bashkirtseff
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anonymous