„Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Misattributed
„Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.“
— Mary Engelbreit American illustrator 1952
„Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Wariant: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.
„Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.“
— J. M. Barrie Scottish writer 1860 - 1937
As quoted in Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled (1917) by Marion Morris, p. 144
„… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.“
— Zadie Smith, książka Białe zęby
Wariant: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Źródło: White Teeth (2000)
„Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…“
— Louisa May Alcott, książka Małe kobietki
Źródło: Little Women
„You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.“
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
„keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball.“
— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
„But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1“
— Christopher Marlowe English dramatist, poet and translator 1564 - 1593
— Omotola Jalade Ekeinde Nigerian actress and singer 1978
https://naijagists.com/omotola-jalade-ekeinde-wisdom-quotes-top-20-motivational-quotes-sayings-omosexy/ Omotola Jalade Ekehinde speaking on Success.
„The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.“
— James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881) 1831 - 1881
Letter to H. N. Eldridge (12 December 1869) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
1860s
Wariant: The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
— Grace Lee Boggs social activist and feminist 1915 - 2015
"'Revolution as a New Beginning': An Interview with Grace Lee Boggs" http://web.archive.org/web/20070415072944/http://oat.tao.ca/~tom/journal/uta1_sequential.pdf. Upping the Anti No. 1. p. 28. March 31, 2005. Interview conducted at Boggs's home in Detroit, Michigan, July 22, 2003. (Web archives http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/01-revolution-as-a-new-beginning/ http://web.archive.org/web/20081030014009/http://uppingtheanti.org/node/1280)
„Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.“
— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015
