Quotes by Authors - Page 90

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Today let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!
Daphne Rose Kingma
We're all only fragile threads but what a tapestry we make.
Jerry Ellis
One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.
Pär Lagerkvist
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
John Miller
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus only by hard work risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.
Alan Alda
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace harmony health love and abundance. Then whenever doubt anxiety or fear try to call me they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
James Ramsey Ullman
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard Devos
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Maxwell Maltz
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Greg Anderson
The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault
Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
Peter McWilliams
Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale yellow balloon letting it go watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.
Barbara Markoff
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Bernie Siegel
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Miller
There are two big forces at work external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes earthquakes floods disasters illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
Leo Buscaglia
There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W Clement Stone
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud and when you have found it continue to look at it rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.
A. A. Willitts
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.
Joseph Newton
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar
Positive thoughts (joy happiness fulfillment achievement worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm calm well-being ease energy love). - Negative thoughts (judgment unworthiness mistrust resentment fear) produce negative results (tension anxiety alienation anger fatigue).
Peter McWilliams
Peace like charity begins at home.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It takes two to make peace.
John F Kennedy
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
It isn't enough to talk about peace one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it one must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Norman Cousins
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
Gerald Jampolsky
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
John F Kennedy
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own having a dog makes you rich.
Louis Sabin
Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.
James Thurber
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
Michael Rosen
Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.
Gene Hill
Cats are angels with fur.
Sark