Quotes by Authors - Page 70

Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Thomas Fuller
To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold Macmillan
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
If your life is ever going to get better you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
David Viscott
We love because it is the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
Only those who dare truly live.
Ruth P. Freedman
If you don't take chances you can't do anything in life.
Michael Spinks
I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.
Anaïs Nin
All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.
Trisha Brown
Any life truly lived is a risky business and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.
Kenneth S. Davis
Equal rights for all special privileges for none.
Thomas Jefferson
He will hew to the line of right let the chips fly where they may.
Roscoe Conkling
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly to find your real job and do it.
Charlotte P. Gilman
Bloom where you are planted.
Anonymous
I am only one but still I am one. 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
Do what you love the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Anonymous
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
Toni Morrison
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
Rosalynn Carter
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best-which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that success found me.
Debbi Fields
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley Montagu
In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.
Edgar Allan Poe
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on ... the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?
Ray Kroc
It is not a dreamlike state but the somehow insulated state that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical it is not only spiritual it is something of both on a different plane and a more remote one.
Arnold Palmer
If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn
The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated why it's just as good as sex.
Lou Centlivre
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?
B.C. Forbes
Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.
Jonathan Swift
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
Sydney Smith
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
Tennessee Williams
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
Edgar Watson Howe
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
Katharine Whitehorn
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.
Marsha Sinetar
All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.
Smiley Blanton
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.
George H. Bender
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
Rebecca West
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless speed up. If you become winded slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then when you're no longer thinking ahead each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.
Robert M. Pirsig
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.
Doris Lund
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.
Gail Sheehy
It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
Alice Walker
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
Hazel Henderson
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz