O. Henry Quotes

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Two beheadings out of six wives is too many.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us.

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Into each life some rain must fall.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?

You have sent me a Flanders mare.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough