Quotable Quotes (12 page)

—
L
ORRAINE
H
ANSBERRY

 

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.

—
F
.
S
COTT
F
ITZGERALD

The Crack-Up
, edited by Edmund Wilson

 

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.

—
A
RTHUR
K
OESTLER

The Act of Creation

 

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

—
T
HEODORE
H
.
W
HITE

 

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

—
M
IGNON
M
C
L
AUGHLIN

 

Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

—
E
RICA
J
ONG

 

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

—
W
ILL
H
ENRY

 

When there is an original sound in the world, it wakens a hundred echoes.

—
J
OHN
A
.
S
HEDD

Salt from My Attic

 

The cynic says, “One man can't do anything.” I say, “Only one man can do anything.” One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

—
J
OHN
W
.
G
ARDNER

 

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person, its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

—
S
AMUEL
B
UTLER

 

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

—
I
GOR
S
IKORSKY

 

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

—
F
ERDINAND
F
OCH

 

Whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

—
O
LIVER
W
ENDELL
H
OLMES
S
R.

 

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

—
L
OUIS
K
RONENBERGER

 

No two men are alike, and both of them are happy for it.

—
M
ORRIS
M
ANDEL

in
The Jewish Press

 

Some people march to a different drummer—and some people polka.

—Los Angeles Times Syndicate

 

T
HE REAL SECRET OF PATIENCE 
. . .

 

The real secret of patience is to find something else to do in the meantime.

—
Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games

 

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

—
E
LIZABETH
M
ONTAGU

 

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

—
C
HINESE EPIGRAM

 

He that can have patience can have what he will.

—
B
ENJAMIN
F
RANKLIN

 

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

 

Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind.

—
A
NDY
J
.
S
KLIVIS

 

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

—
A
BRAHAM
L
INCOLN

 

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

—
W
.
B
.
P
RESCOTT

 

Beware the fury of a patient man.

—
J
OHN
D
RYDEN

 

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

—
J
EAN
J
ACQUES
R
OUSSEAU

 

Patience is the art of hoping.

—
V
AUVENARGUES

 

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

—
S
T.
F
RANCIS DE
S
ALES

 

Patience is the ability to put up with people you'd like to put down.

—
U
LRIKE
R
UFFERT

 

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

—
E
DMUND
B
URKE

 

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

—
M
AC
M
C
C
LEARY

 

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

—
M
ORGAN
L
LYWELYN

The Wind from Hastings

 

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.

—
S
TEVEN
W
RIGHT

 

Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it.

—
J
AMES
T
.
O
'
B
RIEN

 

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

—
A
NDRÉS
S
EGOVIA

 

Impatience can be a virtue, if you practice it on yourself.

—
R
OD
M
C
K
UEN

1985 Book of Days

 

He who is impatient waits twice.

—
M
ACK
M
C
G
INNIS

 

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

We may be willing to tell a story twice but we are never willing to hear it more than once.

—
W
ILLIAM
H
AZLITT

 

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

—
P
AUL
S
WEENEY

 

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

T
HE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HERO AND A COWARD 
. . .

 

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

—
G
ENE
H
ACKMAN

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

—
The Diary of Anaïs Nin

edited by Gunther Stuhlmann

 

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

—
H
ARPER
L
EE

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Courage is being scared to death—and saddling up anyway.

—
J
OHN
W
AYNE

 

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

—
A
DLAI
E
.
S
TEVENSON

 

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

—
E
ARL
W
ILSON

 

Facing it—always facing it—that's the way to get through. Face it!

—
J
OSEPH
C
ONRAD

 

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

—
M
ARY
T
YLER
M
OORE

 

Success is never final and failure never total. It's courage that counts.

—
Success Unlimited

 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

—
C
LARE
B
OOTHE
L
UCE

 

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

—
C
ASEY
R
OBINSON

 

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

—
J
AMES
S
TEPHENS

 

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

—
P
ETER
U
STINOV

 

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

—
W
ILLIAM
M
AKEPEACE
T
HACKERAY

 

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

—
G
EN.
G
EORGE
S
.
P
ATTON

 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage.

—
R
OBERT
L
OUIS
S
TEVENSON

 

You can't test courage cautiously.

—
A
NNIE
D
ILLARD

An American Childhood

 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

—
A
LICE
M
ACKENZIE
S
WAIM

 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

—
R
EV.
B
ILLY
G
RAHAM

 

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

—
L
ADY
B
IRD
J
OHNSON

 

A
LITTLE KINDNESS 
. . .

 

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

—
R
ICHARD
D
EHMEL

 

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

—
C
HARLES
K
URALT

On the Road With Charles Kuralt

 

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

—
The Collected Later Poems of William

Carlos Williams

 

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

—
B
OB
G
ODDARD

 

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

—
C
AROLYN
F
ORCHÉ

The Country Between Us

 

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

—
H
ENRI
F
RÉDÉRIC
A
MIEL

 

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

—
H
AN
S
UYIN

A Many-Splendored Thing

 

How sweet it is when the strong are also gentle!

—
L
IBBIE
F
UDIM