Quotes by Authors - Page 85

Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
People by and large will relate to the image you project.
Anonymous
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.
Susan RoAne
If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Julia Dorr
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
William J. H. Boetcker
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Toni Cade Bambara
If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
When people asked I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick the worse I got. Finally I started saying "I'm getting better." It took a while but then I started to feel better too.
Michael Hirsch
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.
Riane Eisler
My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.
Susan Powter
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Lady Bird Johnson
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.
Shere Hite
It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Vivian Greene
If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman
We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
Margaret Mead
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty you will get them no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself in what life will do for you cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
If you prepare for old age old age comes sooner.
Anonymous
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.
Marie Corelli
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Virginia Satir
Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance or brusqueness-or some provocation.
Robert Hugh Benson
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes
Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Henry David Thoreau
If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.
Simone de Beauvoir
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.
Simone de Beauvoir
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
On the human chessboard all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
Opportunities multiply as they are seized they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
John Wicker
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.
Edward McCabe
Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?
Gretel Ehrlich
Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
Eddie Rickenbacker
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Margery Allingham
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
Elizabeth Dole
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande