Quotes by American/USA authors (page 63)

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us"

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness"

Helen Keller, Author

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings"

Helen Keller, Author

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow"

Helen Keller, Author

"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can"

Og Mandino, Author

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead"

Og Mandino, Author

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats"

Og Mandino, Author

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new"

Og Mandino, Author

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted"

Og Mandino, Author

"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts"

Og Mandino, Author

"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy"

Og Mandino, Author

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again"

Og Mandino, Author

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity"

Og Mandino, Author

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be"

Og Mandino, Author

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later"

Og Mandino, Author

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"To the old, the new is usually bad news"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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