Quotes by American/USA authors (page 6)

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much"

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

George Will, Journalist

"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column"

Dave Barry, Author

"Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others"

Don Shula, Coach

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

E. B. White, Writer

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture"

Spencer Tracy, Actor

"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"The past is a memory, the future is a fantasy. The real, vibrant, creative moment is now"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution"

Robert F. Kennedy, Politician

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

Nat Turner, Activist

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Become a fixer, not just a fixture"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker"

Woody Allen, Director

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known"

Ronald Reagan, President