Quotes by Poets - Page 17

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
George Herbert
When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.
Robert Browning
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
John Milton
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
John Milton
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
They conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.
May Sarton
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Carmen Sylva
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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
May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
Pindar
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
May Sarton
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Horace
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.
Martial
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
Matthew Arnold
Best be yourself imperial plain and true!
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar
People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.
Bertolt Brecht
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese
Love your self's self where it lives.
Anne Sexton
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
I am what I am so take me as I am!
Johann von Goethe
I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.
Robert Browning
Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.
Berthold Auerbach
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.
Walt Whitman
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson
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
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
A man must learn to forgive himself.
Arthur Davison Ficke
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
James Russell Lowell
Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
Kay Boyle
to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
I am better than my reputation.
Friedrich von Schiller
God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.
Robert Burns