Famous quotes by Authors

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood"

Helen Keller, Author

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears"

Helen Keller, Author

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

George Eliot, Author

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them"

George Eliot, Author

"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees"

George Eliot, Author

"The beginning of an acquaintance, whether with persons or things, is to get a definite outline of our ignorance"

George Eliot, Author

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things"

George Eliot, Author

"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men"

George Eliot, Author

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure"

George Eliot, Author

"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished"

Og Mandino, Author

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools"

Og Mandino, Author

"There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late"

Og Mandino, Author

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success"

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

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality"

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

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough"

Og Mandino, Author

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

Og Mandino, Author

"Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

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