Autobiography and memoir

Explore 215 quotes from the following genre: Autobiography and memoir

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Buy Man's Search for Meaning at Amazon Buy Man's Search for Meaning at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Freedom Decisions and choices Attitude and mindset

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

I suggested that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out.

Huey P. Newton

More information about this quote

Topic

Black Power

Author

Huey P. Newton

Source

Revolutionary Suicide

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Newton, Huey. Revolutionary Suicide. Random House, 1973, ch. 16.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Buy Man's Search for Meaning at Amazon Buy Man's Search for Meaning at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Vocation Uniqueness of each person

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Buy The Education of Henry Adams at Amazon Buy The Education of Henry Adams at Amazon
Read The Education of Henry Adams at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Friendship

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 20.

There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden everything happens.

Fay Weldon

More information about this quote

Topic

Inflection points

Author

Fay Weldon

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

Václav Havel

More information about this quote

Topic

Political progress Political courage Progress Courage Politics

Author

Václav Havel

Source

To the Castle and Back

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Czech

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Havel, Václav. To the Castle and Back. Vintage, 2007.

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

More information about this quote

Topic

Cocaine Drugs

Author

Tallulah Bankhead

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bankhead, Tallulah. Tallulah: My Autobiography. Harper & Bros./Victor Gollancz, 1952, ch. 4.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

More information about this quote

Topic

Sound of water Rain Wind Waves Nature

Author

Henry Beston

Source

The Outermost House

Genre

Nature writing Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 3.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

More information about this quote

Topic

Perspective Ugliness Beauty

Speaker

John Constable

Source

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Constable, John. Quoted in Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, written and edited by C.R. Leslie. London: James Carpenter, 1843, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Constable, John. Quoted in Constable: Memoirs of the Life (Arts & Letters), written and edited by C.R. Leslie. Phaidon, 1995.

My feelings are too intense. I hate bitterly, I love too exaltingly, I pity to extravagantly, I hurt too painfully. We American blacks call that "soul."

Chester Himes

More information about this quote

Topic

Black experience

Author

Chester Himes

Source

The Quality of Hurt

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Himes, Chester. The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Vol. 1, Doubleday, 1972.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

More information about this quote

Topic

Letting go Living in the moment

Author

Walter Hagen

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Hagen, Walter C. The Walter Hagen Story. Simon and Schuster, 1956.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

More information about this quote

Topic

Baseball Sports

Author

Jim Bouton

Source

Ball Four

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bouton, Jim. Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues. World Publishing Company, 1970, pt. 7.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

Roald Dahl

More information about this quote

Topic

Homesickness Home

Author

Roald Dahl

Source

Boy: Tales of Childhood

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dahl, Roald. "Homesickness." Boy: Tales of Childhood. Jonathan Cape, 1984.

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.

Edmund Wilson

More information about this quote

Topic

Creative process Creativity

Author

Edmund Wilson

Source

A Piece of My Mind

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilson, Edmund. A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956, ch. 4.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Buy Walden at Amazon Buy Walden at Amazon
Read Walden at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Being oneself Self-acceptance

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

Conclusion Walden

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

In love, the only safety lies in flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

More information about this quote

Topic

Avoiding love Dangers of love Love

Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Source

Memoirs (Napoleon)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Memoirs. c. 1831.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Read My Own Story at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Law vs. justice

Author

Emmeline Pankhurst

Source

My Own Story

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

Current Citation

Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

Wise people... Are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations.

Henry Ford

More information about this quote

Topic

Thinking outside the box Thinking big Innovation Creativity

Author

Henry Ford

Source

My Life and Work

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Ford, Henry and Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work. Doubleday, 1922, ch. 1.

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing-that's the Lord's test.

Mahalia Jackson

More information about this quote

Topic

Independence

Author

Mahalia Jackson

Source

Movin' On Up

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, Mahalia and Evan McLoud Wylie. Movin' On Up. Hawthorn Books, 1966, ch. 1.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

More information about this quote

Topic

Quotations

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

My Early Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Churchill, Winston. My Early Life. T. Butterworth/C. Scribner's Sons, 1930, ch. 9.