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Boys  this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand  good or bad  and don't whine and complain  but play it out. If you're men enough to do that  God will help and you will come out well.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother
Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best  take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
— Smiley Blanton
Accept that all of us can be hurt  that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities  like being embarrassed or risking love  can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst  take the risk.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Do not weep  do not wax indignant. Understand.
— Baruch Spinoza
We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.
— Harvey Mindess
I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
— Erica Jong
There are things I can't force. I must adjust.
— CM. Ward
Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
— Euripides
Wood may remain ten years in the water  but it will never become a crocodile.
— Congolese proverb
No matter how much you feed a wolf  he will always return to the forest.
— Russian proverb
Can the Ethiopian change his skin  or the leopard his spots?
— Bible
A wise man knows everything  a shrewd one  everybody.
— Anonymous
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
— Thomas Fuller
If a man is worth knowing at all  he is worth knowing well.
— Alexander Smith
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
— Kenneth Tynan
A walking shadow  a poor player  that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
— William Shakespeare
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
— Paul Newman
An actor is a guy who  if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
— George Glass
An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.
— Alva Johnston
Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.
— Anonymous
In music  the punctuation is absolutely strict  the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words  we are continually changing the score.
— Ralph Richardson
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does  straight to our emotions  deep into the twilight room of the soul.
— Ingmar Bergman
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
— Clive James
The best audience is intelligent  well-educated  and a little drunk.
— Alvin Barkley
The play was a great success  but the audience was a disaster.
— Oscar Wilde
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
— Arthur Miller
When the characters are really alive before their author  the latter does nothing but follow them in their action  in their words  in the situations which they suggest to him.
— Luigi Pirandello
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
— Arthur Gingold
There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.
— Peggy Ashcroft
Acting is not being emotional  but being able to express emotion.
— Kate Reid
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
— Jean Anouilh
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
— William Hazlitt
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.
— Richard Lester
Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
— William T. Wylie
When actors begin to think  it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
— Stephen Leacock
Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.
— George Jean Nathan
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
— Edwin Booth
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen  the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
— Thornton Wilder
The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review  a collection of songs and sketches  preferably with a satirical bias.
— Nathan Cohen
Acting is happy agony.
— Alec Guinness
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
— George Burns
When the audience knows you know better  it's satire  but when they think you can't do any better  it's corn.
— Spike Jones
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
— Bene Davis
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.
— Jack Carson
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
— Bette Davis
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
— Henry Fonda
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing  but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
— Gore Vidal
Many plays  certainly mine  are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
— Thornton Wilder
You need three things in the theatre - the play  the actors and the audience and each must give something.
— Kenneth Haigh
From the point of view of the playwright  then  the essence of a tragedy  or even of a serious play  is the spiritual awakening  or regeneration  of his hero.
— Maxwell Anderson
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
— Tom Mas son
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
— Orson Welles
The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me  Ma.'
— Lenny Bruce
If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
— Katharine Hepburn
Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful  it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good  it's still all right.
— Max Wall
All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.
— Beryl Pfizer
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
— George S. Kaufman
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time  then I know it can't be much good.
— T. S. Eliot
By increasing the size of the keyhole  today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
— Peter Ustinov
We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors  to escape from the pressure of reality  so much as to confirm our experience of it.
— Charles Lamb
A play visibly represents pure existing.
— Thornton Wilder
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me  I mistrust it.
— Lilli Palmer
I sometimes wish they would swagger more now  buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats  and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds  which is what  at heart - bless 'em - they are.
— J. B. Priestley
Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.
— Ronald Jeans
I know it was wonderful  but I don't know how I did it.
— Laurence Olivier
Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold  they go to the theatre instead.
— W. Boyd Gatewood
The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding  the chin in doubt  and the chin at bay.
— Kenneth Tynan
There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi  get me a Herschel Bernardi type  get me a young Herschel Bernardi  and who is Herschel Bernardi?
— Herschel Bernardi
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people  then I go home alone.
— Janis Joplin
In Hollywood  if you don't have happiness  you send out for it.
— Rex Reed
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
— James Agate
Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down  unless you're a king.
— Josephine Hull
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means  a complexity of words  movements  gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.
— Eugene Ionesco
As an actor  he should be an extra in police line-ups.
— Robert H. Gurney
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool  and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
— Miguel de Cervantes
When an actor has money  he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
— Anton Chekhov
The drama's laws  the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please  must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson
The play's the thing.
— William Shakespeare
After all is said and done  more is said than done.
— Anonymous
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
— Italian proverb
But search the land of living men  Where wilt thou find their like again.
— Sir Walter Scott
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action  of one alone.
— Charles de Gaulle
Go and wake up your cook.
— Arabian proverb
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
— Persian proverb
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If you want something done right  get someone else to do it.
— Marion Giacomini
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
— Confucius
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
— Dodie Smith
Play out the game  act well your part  and if the gods have blundered  we will not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
— Bertrand Russell
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed  in silence.
— Dante Alighieri
To knock a thing down  especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle  is a deep delight to the blood.
— George Santayana
When written in Chinese  the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
Why  then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
— William Shakespeare
Through the picture  I see reality. Through the word  I understand it.
— Sven Lidman
He who desires  but acts not  breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
The frontiers are not east or west  north or south  but wherever a man fronts a fact.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you want a thing done  go - if not  send.
— Benjamin Franklin
All glory comes from daring to begin.
— Anonymous
Action is eloquence.
— William Shakespeare
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action  and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The great end of life is not knowledge  but action.
— Thomas Fuller
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write  and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
— Woodrow Wilson
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
— Learned Hand
It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
— G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
— Anonymous
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
— Thomas A. Edison
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit  divorced from it  they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
— John F. Kennedy
Take time to deliberate  but when the time for action arrives  stop thinking and go in.
— Andrew Jackson
You may be disappointed if you fail  but you are doomed if you don't try.
— Beverly Sills
When you appeal to force  there's one thing you must never do - lose.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In action  be primitive  in foresight  a strategist.
— Rene Char
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events  not of words. Trust movement.
— Alfred Adler
Let us act on what we have  since we have not what we wish.
— Cardinal Newman
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
— Will Durant
A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)
— Robert McClure
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I shall tell you a great secret  my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement  it takes place every day.
— Albert Camus
Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art  of science  or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.
— Louis Pasteur
I learn by going where I have to go.
— Theodore Roethke
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
— Dutch proverb
The shortest answer is doing.
— English proverb
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
— Joseph Conrad
We will either find a way  or make one.
— Hannibal
If you have anything to tell me of importance  for God's sake begin at the end.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
— Curtis Grant
Ideas are powerful things  requiring not a studious contemplation but an action  even if it is only an inner action.
— Midge Dector
The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks  he thinks as he lives.
— Reverend Vaughan Quinn
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe  don't read what they write  don't ask them what they believe  just observe what they do.
— Ashley Montagu
Our nature consists in motion  complete rest is death.
— Blaise Pascal
Who can separate his faith from his actions  or his belief from his occupations?
— Kahlil Gibran
The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
— Swahili proverb
The superior man is modest in his speech  but excels in his actions.
— Confucius
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
— Donald G. Mitchell
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
— Friedrich Engels
Action is the only reality  not only reality but morality  as well.
— Abbie Hoffman
Life happens at the level of events  not words.
— Alfred Adler
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone  but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing  and God everything.
— Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Right action is the key to good living.
— Twelve Steps and
Even if you're on the right track  you'll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
If faith without works is dead  willingness without action is fantasy.
— Anonymous
Inspirations never go in for long engagements  they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
— Anonymous
The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done  not merely something believed  or known or experienced.
— Mary McDermott Shideler
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck  even while waiting for it.
— Baltasar Gracian
The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
— Anonymous
God doesn't make orange juice  God makes oranges.
— Jesse Jackson
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
Trust in God and do something.
— Mary Lyon
God helps them that helps themselves.
— Benjamin Franklin
The true secret of giving advice is  after you have honestly given it  to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
— Lily Walters
He will hew the line of right  let the chips fall where they may.
— Roscoe Conkling
You take people as far as they will go  not as far as you would like them to go.
— Jeannette Rankin
Oh Lord  thou givest us everything  at the price of an effort.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
— Agatha Christie
On God for all events depend  You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best  Leave to your Maker all the rest.
— Nathaniel Cotton
You  yourself  must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.
— Buddhist proverb
There is a time for all things  a time to preach and a time to pray  but those times have passed away  there is a time to fight  and that time has come!
— General Peter Muhlenberg
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
— William McFee
It is not yours to finish the task  but neither are you free to take no part in it.
— Anonymous
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself  but to leave the result to God.
— Alan Paton
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest  do not worry.
— Charles F. Deems
'Tis man's to fight  but Heaven's to give success.
— Homer
If people are suffering  then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
— The Dalai Lama
I am not bound to win  but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed  but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
— Abraham Lincoln
No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
— Gerald Jampolsky
In vain our labours are  whatsoe'er they be  unless God gives the Benediction.
— Robert Herrick
God alone can finish.
— John Ruskin
In all human affairs there are efforts  and there are results  and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
— James Lane Allen
God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
— Mother Teresa
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds  for love is measured by its own fullness  not by its reception.
— Harold Loukes
Happy people plan actions  they don't plan results.
— Dennis Wholey
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results  but only with being true to God  and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
— Frederick W. Robertson
The man who has done his level best  and who is conscious that he has done his best  is a success  even though the world may write him down a failure.
— B. C. Forbes
To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged  it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride  but when we attempt to steer the course  the momentum dies.
— Sue Atchley Ebaugh
Try first thyself  and after call in God  For to the worker God himself lends aid.
— Euripides
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing  fearing nothing  but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature  and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest  thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
— Doris Lessing
If it is your time  love will track you down like a cruise missile.
— Lynda Barry
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it  could have let yourself go and dug harder.
— Emily Carr
If you can react the same way to winning and losing  that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
— Chris Evert
You have striven so hard  and so long  to compel life. Can't you now slowly change  and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
— D. H. Lawrence
Coercive power is the curse of the universe  coactive power  the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
— Mary Parker Follett
I began to have an idea of my life  not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes  but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
— Joanna Field
A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds  rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.
— John Fortunato
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep  and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt  is already accomplished.
— Amelia Barr
O golden Silence  bid our souls be still  and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
— Julia Dorr
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth  a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
— Natalie Goldberg
When you learn not to want things so badly  life comes to you.
— Jessica Lange
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
— Carrie Snow
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good  behave yourself and never mind the rest.
— Beatrix Potter
One by one the sands are flowing  One by one the moments fall  Some are coming  some are going  Do not strive to grasp them all.
— Adelaide Proctor
Somehow  when we no longer feel in control  we become available to deeper aliveness.
— Richard Moss
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
— Bette Bao Lord
The best direction is the least possible direction.
— Joan Manley
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
— Dorothy Miller Richardson
People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
We cannot alter facts  but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
— Phyllis Bottome
It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you  do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
— Olga Ilyin
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind  and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race.
— Jill Tweedie
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands  we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore  no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
— Anonymous
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
— Robert Frost
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute  and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
— Alice Caldwell Rice
As your faith is strengthened  you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control  that things will flow as they will  and that you will flow with them  to your great delight and benefit.
— Emmanuel
For peace of mind  resign as general manager of the universe.
— Anonymous
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life  to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.
— Shakti Gawain
It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!)  "I trust you  do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
— Olga Ilyin
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them  and know it  but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
— William Graham Sumner
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves  instead of letting them alter us.
— Mother Maribel
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
— Gerald G. May
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone  or to recreate it.
— Johnette Napolitano
I claim not to have controlled events  but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
— Merrit Malloy
We are the wire  God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.
— Carlo Carretto
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God  "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says  "All right  then  have it your way."
— C. S. Lewis
Here am I  send me.
— Bible
'Tis God gives skill  but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
— George Eliot
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
— Mother Teresa
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I see not a step before me as I tread on another year  But I've left the Past in God's keeping  the Future His mercy shall clear  And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
— Mary Gardiner Brainard
To character and success  two things  contradictory as they may seem  must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God  and manly reliance on self.
— William Wordsworth
Whate'er we leave to God  God does and blesses us.
— Henry David Thoreau
God will help you if you try  and you can if you think you can.
— Anna Delaney Peale
Doing what is right isn't the problem  it's knowing what is right.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this  leaving all else alone.
— Henry Suso
If you can't help it  don't think about it.
— Carmel Myers
God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
— Katheryn Hulme
Much that I sought  I could not find  much that I found  I could not bind  much that I bound  I could not free  much that I freed  returned to me.
— Lee Wilson Dodd
Wanna fly  you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
— Toni Morrison
The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.
— Emmanuel
Be God or let God.
— Anonymous
With us is the Lord our God  to help us and to fight our battles.
— Bible
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
— Bible
Cast thy burden on the Lord  and he shall sustain thee.
— Bible
But I trusted in thee  O Lord  I said  Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.
— Bible
God's will is not an itinerary  but an attitude.
— Andrew Dhuse
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart  and lean not unto thine own understanding  in all thy ways acknowledge Him  and He shall direct thy paths.
— Bible
Casting all your care upon Him  for He careth for you.
— Bible
My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand  as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing  but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
— Thomas Merton
Be like the bird that  passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight  feels them give way beneath her  and yet sings  knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can  you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
— Harry S. Truman
Even now I am full of hope  but the end lies in God.
— Pindar
Let us do or die.
— James Drummond Burns
Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
— W. S. Gilbert
He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done  and he did it.
— Edgar A. Guest
Do well and right  and let the world sink.
— George Edward Herbert
Trust no future  howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act   - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us then be up and doing  With a heart for any fate  Still achieving  still pursuing  Learn to labor and to wait.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
— James Russell Lowell
He nothing common did  or mean  Upon that memorable scene.
— Andrew Marvell
Go  and do thou likewise.
— Bible
So much to do  so little done.
— Cecil Rhodes
Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided  act promptly.
— Sallust
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
— Friedrich von Schiller
What's done can't be undone.
— William Shakespeare
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
— Sophocles
Theirs not to make reply  Theirs not to reason why  Theirs but to do and die.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Out of the strain of the doing  Into the peace of the done.
— Julia Woodruff
Adam and Eve had many advantages  but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
— S. L. Clemens
Whilst Adam slept  Eve from his side arose  Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.
— Anonymous
When Adam dolve  and Eve span  Who was then the gentleman?
— John Ball
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant  Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
— Thomas Hood
Adam ate the apple  and our teeth still ache.
— Hungarian proverb
In Adam's fall -  We sinned all.
— New England Primer
Admiration is a very short-lived passion  that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
— Joseph Addison
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
— Ambrose Bierce
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
— Denis Diderot
We always love those who admire us  and we do not always love those whom we admire.
— La Rochefoucauld
For fools admire  but men of sense approve.
— Alexander Pope
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
— Ignazio Silone
I don't deserve this award  but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
— Jack Benny
I have an inward treasure born within me  which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld  or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
— Charlotte Bronte
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction  but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
— James Baldwin
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
— William McFee
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
— Albert Camus
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference  by philosophy and by religion.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Weeping may endure for a night  but joy cometh in the morning.
— Bible
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
— Seneca
Too much happens ... Man performs  engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted  the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.
— Panchatantra
I've had an unhappy life  thank God.
— Russell Baker
Do not show your wounded finger  for everything will knock up against it.
— Baltasar Gracian
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
— Dorothy Parker
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
— Henry J. Kaiser
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience  but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards  they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly  as we wake or sleep  we grow strong or weak  and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
— Brooke Foss Westcott
What does not destroy me  makes me strong.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.
— Damon Runyon
(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself  being especially free from admirers then.
— Samuel Johnson
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
— Josh Billings
From a fallen tree  all make kindling.
— Spanish proverb
The virtue of prosperity is temperance  the virtue of adversity is fortitude  which in morals is the heroical virtue.
— Francis Bacon
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
— Seneca
You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.
— Spanish proverb
Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men  from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair.
— Hasidic saying
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
— Anonymous
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.
— Edward Noyes Westcott
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
— George Meredith
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
— The Talmud
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
— Marcus Aurelius
I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.
— Bible
Prosperity tries the fortunate  adversity the great.
— Pliny the Younger
Be willing to have it so  acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
— William James
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap  whence every one must take an equal portion  most people would be content to take their own and depart.
— Solon
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
— Alexander Pope
When the world has once begun to use us ill  it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony  as men do to a whore.
— Jonathan Swift
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
— Bible
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
— Fridiric Chopin
Fire tries gold  misfortune men.
— Anonymous
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
— Bible
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
— Emily Dickinson
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities  my capacities.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Whenever there is chaos  it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
— Septima Poinsette Clark
I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night  before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
— Tennessee Williams
What we want is never simple.
— Linda Pastan
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
— Beah Richards
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune  for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
— Benjamin Franklin
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things  as revenge. To show that I could.
— Roman Polanski
Adversity is  to me at least  a tonic and a bracer.
— Sir Walter Scott
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
— B. C. Forbes
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
— Anonymous
Brave men rejoice in adversity  just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Some minds seem almost to create themselves  springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
— Washington Irving
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treasure the memories of past misfortunes  they constitute our bank of fortitude.
— Eric Hoffer
If you will call your troubles experiences  and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you  you will grow vigorous and happy  however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
— John Heywood
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
— Honore de Balzac
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."
— Mark Twain
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
— Sallust
People wish to be settled  only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difficulties are meant to rouse  not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
Adversity causes some men to break  others to break records.
— William A. Ward
I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness  whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.
— Mary Adams
Opposition inflames the enthusiast  never converts him.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
— Molly Haskell
If you do things well  do them better. Be daring  be first  be different  be just.
— Anita Roddick
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man  it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
— John Neal
Difficulties  opposition  criticism -  these things are meant to be overcome  and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.
— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
They sicken of calm  who know the storm.
— Dorothy Parker
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.
— Saint Rose of Lima
When the going gets tough  the tough get going.
— Frank Leahy
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat  men to whom a crises  which intimidates and paralyzes the majority  comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep  but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways
— Angela Merici
Down you mongrel  Death! Back into your kennel!
— Edna Saint Vincent Millay
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
— Thomas Carlyle
Strong people are made by opposition  like kites that go up against the wind.
— Frank Harris
Men strive for peace  but it is their enemies that give them strength  and I think if man no longer had enemies  he would have to invent them  for his strength only grows from struggle.
— Louis L'Amour
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
— Walt Schmidt
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
— Louis L'Amour
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
— M. Scott Peck
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little  a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
— Grenville Kleiser
When things come to the worse  they generally mend.
— Susanna Moodie
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
— Whitney Griswold
Remorse begets reform.
— William Cowper
"The world is a wheel always turning " philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low  and those who've been low go up higher."
— Anzia Yezierska
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
— Teresa of Avila
In order to change  we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
— Anonymous
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows  with a harp and sword in my hands.
— Zora Neale Hurston
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom  for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
— Carol Pearson
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
— Anonymous
Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us  all that gives value to life  we owe to it pity  we owe to it courage  we owe to it all the virtues.
— Anatole France
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
— Dorothy Dix
Man cannot remake himself without suffering  for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls  the most massive characters are seared with scars.
— Edwin H. Chapin
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
— Maureen Duffy
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
— Carl Jung
Everybody's heart is open  you know  when they have recently escaped from severe pain  or are recovering the blessing of health.
— Jane Austen
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
— John Patrick
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great  it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
— Alexandra David-Neel
To live is to suffer  to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
— Roberta Flack
If you suffer  thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
— Jessamyn West
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes  you'll know you're dead.
— Tennessee Williams
How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
— Emily Dickinson
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
— Pietro Aretino
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened  vision cleared  ambition inspired  and success achieved.
— Helen Keller
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.
— Jessica Mitford
True knowledge comes only through suffering.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Suffering has always been with us  does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
— Etty Hillesum
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
— Patti Smith
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions  because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
— Teresa of Avila
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
— William J. H. Boetcker
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real  even though our feet bleed on its stones.
— Mary Parker Follett
And I think that's important  to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
— E. Annie Proulx
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
— Isak Dinesen
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
— Charles F. Kettering
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way  it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
— H. Bertram Lewis
Every time you meet a situation  though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned  once you have met it and lived through it  you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief  struggle  and flashes of vision which enlighten.
— Margaret Anderson
I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes  and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
— Dorothy Dix
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope  not of despair.
— C. V. Wedgwood
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
There are some things you learn best in calm  and some in storm.
— Willa Cather
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
— Oscar Wilde
Were there none who were discontented with what they have  the world would never reach anything better.
— Florence Nightingale
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Restlessness is discontent  and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
— Thomas A. Edison
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
— Thomas W. Higginson
No pain  no palm  no thorns  no throne  no gall  no glory  no cross  no crown.
— William Penn
The gem cannot be polished without friction  nor man perfected without trials.
— Confucius
As there is no worldly gain without some loss  so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss  and thou shalt find no loss great.
— Francis Quarles
Never complain about your troubles  they are responsible for more than half of your income.
— Robert R. Updegraff
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
— Frederick Phillips
Fire is the test of gold  adversity of strong men.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time  I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
— Gail Sheehy
I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring  they usually last a considerable time.
— L. E. Landon
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble  and you'll probably make it through the next one.
— Ruth Gordon
Calamity is the test of integrity.
— Richardson
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
— Gail Sheehy
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our trials are tests  our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.
— Jerome P. Fleishman
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace  and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
— Abigail Adams
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
— Anonymous