Quotes by Authors - Page 66

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Henry David Thoreau
Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
Axel Munthe
Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.
Ruth P. Freedman
To find the good life you must become yourself.
Dr. Bill Jackson
Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
André Gide
She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.
Martha Bacon
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
What thou art that thou art.
Thomas à Kempis
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
Denise Shekerjian
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.
Lorraine Hansbury
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland
The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansbury
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial the alienation from the sources of our strength.
Rachel Carson
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
Sarah Josepha Hale
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.
Arlene Croce
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
Sharon Begley
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
Sharon Begley
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
Margaret Anderson
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
Ellen Sue Stern
Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.
Berthold Auerbach
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
Louis L'Amour
I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
Joanna T. Steichen
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.
Sarah Boseley
Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.
Anonymous
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi Goldberg
When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!
Rusty Berkus
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.
William Bennett
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.
Raquel Welch
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.
Jean Kerr
She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Anaïs Nin
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Ethel Barrett
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.
Thomas à Kempis
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.
Noël Coward
Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.
Leontine Young
When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.
Elizabeth Taylor
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
Bonaro Overstreet
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
Kay Boyle
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
Stewart E. White
Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer