50 Famous Author Quotes
- Suzy K Quinn
- Jun 23, 2016
- 4 min read
Famous Author Quotes to Uplift and Inspire
Authors are extremely clever people. Probably the cleverest people on the planet. Did I mention that I’m an author? No? Well anyway. Clever, clever, clever. That’s what authors are. Oh okay, I’m not all that clever. I dropped my iPhone down the toilet this morning and left the house with my top on inside out. But other authors … they say such clever things! I’ve got together 50 of my favourite famous author quotes for you to ponder over and enjoy. Here they all are …
No. 1 – Margaret Walker
“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.”
No. 2 – Zig Ziglar
“The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.”
No. 3 – WA Ward
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
No. 4 – Khalil Gibran
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”
No. 5 – Victoria Holt
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
No. 6 – Victor Hugo
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
No. 7 – Tony Robbins
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
No. 8 – Thomas Carlyle
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
No. 9 – Sylvia Plath
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
No. 10 – William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
No. 11 – RW Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
No. 12 – Robert Schuller
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
No. 13 – Robert Collier
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
No. 14 – Robert Browning
“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”
No. 15 – Richard Bach
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
No. 16 – Peter Drucker
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
No. 17 – Pamela Vaull Starr
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
No. 18 – OW Holmes, Jr.
“The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”
No. 19 – Nathaniel Branden
“Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.”
No. 20 – Maya Angelou
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
No. 21 – Mary Radmacher
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.”
No. 22 – Mark Twain
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up.”
No. 23 – Margaret B. Runbeck
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
No. 24 – Zig Ziglar
“If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”
No. 25 – Tony Robbins
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
No. 26 – Marcia Wieder
“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.”
No. 27 – Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
No. 28 – Louisa May Alcott
“We all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
No. 29 – Lanston Hughes
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
No. 30 – Joseph Campbell
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
No. 31 – JC Hare
“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
No. 32 – Isabelle Eberhardt
“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.”
No. 33 – Henry Miller
“Everyone has their own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads them.”
No. 34 – H Longfellow
“Perseverance is a great element of success. Knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
No. 35 – George Eliot
“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
No. 36 – S. I. Hayakawa
“If we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
No. 37 – Carl Sagan
“Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.”
No. 38 – William Nicholson
“We read to know we are not alone.”
No. 39 – Rumer Godden
“When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again.”
No. 40 – Vera Nazarian
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
No. 41 – Franz Kafka
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
No. 42 – Ernest Hemingway
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
No. 43 – Dr. Seuss
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
No. 44 – DM Dellinger
“You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own…”
No. 45 – David Viscott
“In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.”
No. 46 – Baltasar Gracian
“Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.”
No. 47 – Anne Frank
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
No. 48 – Al Bernstein
“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
No. 49 – Albert Camus
“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
No. 50 – Andre Gide
“It is good to follow one’s own beat, so long as it leads upward.”
Love, Suzy K Quinn xxx
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