Famous quotes by Authors

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own"

Jessamyn West, Author

"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults"

Jessamyn West, Author

"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: Did some man want her?"

Jessamyn West, Author

"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one"

Jessamyn West, Author

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier"

Jessamyn West, Author

"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Groan and forget it"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free"

Jessamyn West, Author

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself"

Jessamyn West, Author

"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing"

Jessamyn West, Author

"The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want"

Robert Collier, Author

"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance!"

Robert Collier, Author

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out"

Robert Collier, Author

"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service"

Robert Collier, Author

"See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are"

Robert Collier, Author

"See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession"

Robert Collier, Author

"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward"

Robert Collier, Author

"Plant the seed of desire in your mind, and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment"

Robert Collier, Author

"Pictures help you to form the mental mold"

Robert Collier, Author

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves"

Robert Collier, Author

"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives"

Robert Collier, Author

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal"

Robert Collier, Author

"Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in"

Robert Collier, Author

"It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it"

Robert Collier, Author

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time"

Robert Collier, Author

"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be"

Robert Collier, Author

"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... Break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time"

Robert Collier, Author

"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings"

Robert Collier, Author

"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"

Robert Collier, Author

"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted"

Robert Collier, Author

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