Right Quotes

That suit is best that best suits me.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman as a human being and even female-was when I was singing.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

To every man according to his ability.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.

Whenever it is possible a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

We do not write as we want but as we can.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities and for no more.

Me I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best-which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that success found me.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.