Quotes by American/USA authors (page 13)

"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying"

"To be number one, you must train like you are number two"

"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

Albert Maltz, Author

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every wall is a door"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything"

Mark Twain, Author

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain, Author

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A place for everything, everything in its place"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Improvement begins with I"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Love is the river of life in the world"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies"

Robert Frost, Poet

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Quotes by American authors