• You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Sachs, T.

• Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

Sa'di

• It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless, it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary, and this is the essence of good policy. (Gulistan)

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

• A little beauty is preferable to much wealth. (Gulistan)

Safian, Lousi A.

• You can't tell a book by its movie. (the Book of Updated Proverbs )

Sagan, Carl

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. (Broca's Brain)

• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

• Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend time wondering why nature is the way it is. (Introduction to A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking)

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. (Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science)

• One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. (Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science)

Sahib, The Siri Singh

• There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

Saint Ambrose

• No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Saint Augustine

• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues; hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. (in "Humility" Spiritual Diary: Selected Sayings and Examples of Saints)

• People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.

Saint Basil

• If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

• Death is the gate of life.

Saint Clement of Alexandria

• If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

• He who would travel happily must travel light. (Wind, Sand, and Stars)

• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

• It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

• Love does not consist of gazing at one another, but in looking outward in the same direction.

• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. (Flight to Arras)

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

• When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint Francis de Sales

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

• True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Saint Francis of Assisi

• For it is in giving that we receive.

• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

• No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

• Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Saint Maximus the Confessor

• In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

Saint Teresa of Avila

• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Lisieux

• If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked, out with little wildflowers.

• Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

Sainte-Marie, Buffy

• You have to leave room in life to dream.

Sakharov, Andrie (Dr.)

• You always need to make ideals clear to yourself. You always have to be aware of them, even if there is no direct path to their realization. Were there no ideals, there would be no hope whatsoever. Then everything would be hopelessness, darkness--a blind alley.

Sale, Roger

• Seattle is a soft city, made up of soft light and hills and water and growing things an a sense that nature is truly accommodating. … There is no day in the year when it is too hot or too cold to work or get around, and few days when one cannot be outside, in a boat, walking, playing golf or tennis or going fishing. … Seattle's colors are gray and green. (Seattle Past to Present)

Sallay, Shirley

• Christmas now surrounds us,
  Happiness is everywhere
  Our hands are busy with many tasks
  As carols fill the air. ("Just a Few Mintues")

Sallust

• The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Samuel, Herbert

• A library is thought in cold storage.

Sand, George

• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

• One is happy as a result of one's own efforts--once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

• The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Sandburg, Carl

• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

• Nothing happens unless first a dream.

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Sands, Bill

• Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sandwell, Bernard Keble

• I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

Sanger, Margaret

• Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

• Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

Santayana, George

• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

• To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content (The Sense of Beauty)

• To the art of working well a civilized race would add that art of playing well. (Little Essays)

• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

• We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible.

Sapirstein, Milton R.

• Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. (Paradoxes of Everyday Life)

Sappho

• From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious. (fragment)

Sarandon, Susan

• I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Sarnoff, David

• Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will nto be a chore but an adventure if you briung to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

Saroyan, William

• Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Sarton, May

• For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)

• I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)

• I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

• In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

• It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength. (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)

• Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

• One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine … who one is and wants to be.

• One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

• One thing is certain, and I have always known it--they joys of my life have nothing to do with age.

• Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

• There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. (Journal of a Solitude)

Sartre, Jean Paul

• Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. ("Temporalite" Situations)

Satir, Virginia

• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.

• Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him. (Peoplemaking)

Sauer, Erich

• The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.

Savant, Marilyn Vos, see Vos Savant, Marilyn Mach

Saville, George

• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

Sawyer, Charles

• Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope people are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Sawyer, Diane

• The dream is not the destination but the journey.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

• Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. ("The Other Six Deadly Sins" Creed or Chaos?)

• The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. (Gaudy Night)

• A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ("Are Woman Human?" Unpopular Opinions)

• I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking. (Have His Carcass)

• The library, with its tall bays and overhanging gallery, looked east and was already rather dark. Harriet found it restful. (Busman's Honeymoon)

Schaar, John

• The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.

Schaef, Anne Wilson

• I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

• Obstacles often are not personal attacks; they are muscle builders.

• Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren't.

Schaefer, Charles

• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Schlessinger, Laura

• Because you're able to do it and because you have the right to do it doesn't mean it's right to do it.

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

• The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

• Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

• This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

• We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Schiller, Johann Christoph

• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Schlegel, Friedrich von

• In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Schleeds, Melvin

• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Schlomann, Lynda

• Christmas is cold, and warmth,
  Forgiveness, and tender smiles;
  A handclasp firm, a letter flying
  Across the snowy miles. ("Christmas")

Schopenhauer, Arthur

• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

• Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

• To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Schriener, Olive

• A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world. (The Letters of Olive Schreiner)

• Everything has two sides--the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

• Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. (Letters of Olive Scheiner)

• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off ... you will see the scar there still.

Schuller, H. Robert

• Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

• Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

• As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

• Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.

• Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.

• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

• Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

• It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

• Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

• The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

• Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

• What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

• Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

• You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Schultz, Garnett Ann

• Let us keep Christmas beautiful
  Without a thought of greed,
  That it might live forevermore
  To fill our every need,
  
  That it shall not be just a day,
  But last a lifetime through,
  The miracle of Christmastime
  That brings God close to you.

• May Christmas bring you happiness,
  A song to fill your heart
  With all the blessings large and small
  The season doth impart. ("My Christmas Wish")

• May Christmas lend a special charm
  To all you chance to do.
  And may the season light your way
  To hopes and dreams anew. ("My Christmas Wish")

• There's a beauty when it's Christmas,
  All the world is different then;
  There's no place for petty hatred
  In the hearts and minds of men.
  That is why my heart is happy
  And my mind can hold a dream,
  For I keep a part of Christmas
  With its peace and joy supreme- ("I Keep a Part of Christmas")

• You will find the road to Christmas
  Where your hopes and dreams come true,
  And your heart will know the magic
  That the season brings to you., ("The Road to Christmas")

Schultz, Will

• Joy comes from using your potential.

Schulz, Charles

• Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. (in "Peanuts" 1952)

• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Schumacker, E. F.

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

Schurz, Carl

• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

Schutz, Will

• Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

Schwab, Charles

• Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

• I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Schwartz, David Joseph

• All great achievements require time.

• Do what you fear and fear disappears.

• How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

• The success combination in business is: Do what you do better...and: Do more of what you do...

• Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

• To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.

Schwartz, Robert L.

• The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Schwartzkopf, H. Norman (General)

• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

• The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Schweitzer, Albert

• As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

• Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world… By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

• Example is not the main thing in influencing others--it's the only thing.

• I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

• In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

• It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

• Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. ("Religion and Modern Civilization" Christian Century, November 28, 1934)

• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.

Scott, Loretta (Dr.)

• We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Scott, Sarah

• Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification. (A Description of Millenium Hall)

Scott, Walter (Sir)

• Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

• True love's the gift which God hath given,
  To man alone beneath the heaven.
  The silver link, the silver tie, which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
  In body and in soul can find.

Scully-O'Grady, Lisa

• Through you I learned how great life can be, how the simple things in life are really the most important and how you treat other people is really all that matters.

Seabury, David

• Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Seats, Delores

• Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.

Secker, Thomas

• To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.

Seeger, Pete

• Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Seidel, George J.

• The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

Seldon, John

• Abundance consists not so much in material possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit.

Selfrigde, Harry Gordon

• The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.
  The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
  The boss says "I"; the leader says "we."
  The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.
  The boss says "go"; the leader says "let's go."

Seligman, Kathy

• You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.

Seligman, Martin

• Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think. (Learned Optimism)

Semisonic

• Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.

Seneca

• The best ideas are common property. ("On Old Age," Moral Letters to Lucilius)

• The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few people of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own. (Letters to Lucilius)

• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

• The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes and, like people in the dark, fall short of the very thing we search for without finding it.

• A great fortune is a great slavery.

• He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. ("On consolation to Marcius" Moral Essays)

• He that does good to another does good also to himself.

• He who is brave is free.

• I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. ("On Tranquility of Mind" Moral Essays)

• If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

• It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

• No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself.

• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

• The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

• Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

• There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasure; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

• This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

• True happiness is ... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

• We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to- day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

• Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

• Where fear is, happiness is not.

• You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Senn, John Petit

• Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Serling, Rod

• It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Seton, Anya

• It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. (The Turquoise)

Setter, Maurice

• Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Seuss, Dr.

• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

• I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
  nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Sevareid, Eric

• Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Sewell, Anna

• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Seymour, Charles

• Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.

Seymour, Jane

• If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."

Shafer, Paul D.

• The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person... who is worthy of emulation.

Shaftsbury, Anthony

• Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others.

Shakespeare, William

• Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
  Thou are not so unkind
  As man's ingratitude.

• How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (The Merchant of Venice)

• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? (Othello)

• Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.

• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

• Our doubts are traitors; and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

• The quality of mercy is not strained;
  It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
  Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed--
  It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

• Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.

• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

• 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

• Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Shantidasa

• The conscience interprets life honestly and realistically. The same cannot be said about the ego.

Shapiro, David A., see Leider, Richard J.

Shaw, Anna Howard

• I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

Shaw, George Bernard

• The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

• If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

• Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

• Liberty means responsibility.

• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

• A miracle is an event which creates faith. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive; therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. (preface to Androcles and the Lion)

• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

• Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

• The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

• This is the true joy in life--being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a might one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

• To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

• You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

Shedd, John A.

• Opportunities are seldom labeled.

• When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Sheehy, Gail

• Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are to really living.

• To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Sheen, Fulton J. (Bishop)

• Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

• Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

• Joy is the happiness of love--love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

• Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

• Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

• Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing;" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Sheetz

• Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those who do. ("Sheetz's Rumination" in 1,001 Logical Laws comp. by Peers)

Sheffield, John

• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. (Essay on Poetry)

Sheffield, William

• A good judge doesn't know the strength of the plaintiff's case until he's heard the defense.

Shelley, Mary

• ...my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed--my dearest pleasure when free.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

• The soul's joy lies in doing.

• To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite;
  To forgive wrongs darker than death or night
  To defy power, which seems omnipotent;
  To love, and bear; to hope till hope creates
  From its own wreck the thing it contemplates
  Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
  This, like thy glory, Titan, it to be
  Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
  This alone is life, you, empire and victory.--Percy Shelley (Prometheus Unbound)

Shem, Israel Ball

• The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

Sher, Barbara

• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water.

• "Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Sheridan, Richard

• Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget. (The Rivals)

Sherman, William Tecumseh

• It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

• The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

• If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Shinn, George

• Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Shirley, John

• Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Short, Brenda

• Do not ask for fulfillment in all your life, but for patience to accept frustration.
  Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes.
  Do not ask for more, before saying "Thank You" for what you have already received.

Shoup, David M. (General)

• The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

Shows, John

• Some say love is blind while others say there is love at first sight. For those who say love is blind, I say open your eyes and take in the endless possibilities of beauty and compassion. For those who believe in love at first sight, take time to close your eyes, look into your heart, and find out whose face it is that you see.

Sidney, Philip (Sir)

• "Fool!" said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write." (Astrophel and Stella)

Sidgwick, Henry

• We think so because other people think so,
  Or because--or because--after all, we do think so,
  Or because, we were told so, and we must think so,
  Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so,
  Or because having thought so, we think we will think so.

Siegel, Bernie S.

• In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

Sigourney, Lynda H.

• The true order of learning should be: first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Silesius, Angelus

• Do not seek God
  in outer space--
  Your heart is the only place
  in which to meet Him
  face to face.

Silf, Margaret

• Prayer that works is prayer that makes a difference, contemplation that turns into action, on behalf of peace and justice in a troubled and unjust world system. Prayer is energy, the energy of love and transformative power. It is given to us to use for the good of all creation. In prayer God gives us the fuel of life, and asks us to live it.

Sills, Beverly

• Art is the signature of civilizations. (Interview, 1985)

• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

• I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Silver, Spencer

• If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Silverstein, Shel

• All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
  Layin' in the sun,
  Talkin' bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
  But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
  All ran away and hid
  From one little did.

Simmons, Charles

• Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Simmons, S. H.

• Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Simon, Neil

• Don't listen to those who say, "It's not done that way." Maybe it's not, but maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, "You're taking too big a chance." Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says, "They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections…" I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect.

Simons, Menno

• True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.

Simonton, O. Carl

• Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.

Simpson, Alan

• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity,nothing else matters.

Simpson, E. L.

• Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.

Sinetar, Marsha

• To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it the life will be valueless.

• You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge. (interview by Burgin New York Times Magazine December 3, 1978)

• What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Sister Gervais

• That's what's wrong with the world--people don't compliment other people enough. They would change the world if they did. (in What is a Calling? by Novak)

Sitting Bull

• Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Sitwell, Edith (Dame)

• I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

Sivananda

• There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Skedman, Edward C.

• Originality consists not only in doing things differently, but also is "doing things Better." (Victorian Poets)

Skinner, B. F.

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. (Contingencies of Reinforcement)

Sladek, John

• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Smalley, Dave E.

• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

Smeltzer, Ruth

• You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smigler, Scott

• A true leader is hated by most, and respected by all. A follower is liked by all, and respected by none.

Smiles, Samuel

• Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

• Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. (Self-Help)

• Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds ages ago.

• To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

• We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smith, Adam

• On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

• That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages. (The Theory of Moral Sentiments)

Smith, Alexander

• I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. (Dreamthorp)

• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I hope for. (Dreamthorp)

Smith, Betty

• Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Smith, Dodie

• The family--that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

• I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making--it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. (I Capture the Castle)

• I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Smith, Elinor

• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Smith, Elizabeth Elton

• Temptation almost always assails us at the point where we thought no defense necessary. (Three Eras of Woman's Life)

Smith, Hannah Whitall

• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Smith, Lillian

• To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Smith, Liz

• Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

• Denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

• Eat with the rich, but go play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Smith, Margaret Chase

• Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

• When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Smith, Minnie Richard

• Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
  That stuck to their jobs, you see. ("Stick to Your Job")

Smith, Roy L.

• Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Smith, Sidney

• It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.

Smith, Sydney

• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

• No furniture is so charming as books.

• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Smollett, Tobias G.

• Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley

• It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

Sobran, Joseph

• Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Sockman, Ralph W.

• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

• True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. …it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. (Arkansas Methodist)

Socrates, see Plato

Solle, Dorothee

• What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. (The Truth Is Concrete)

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

• If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, an it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Sontag, Susan

• It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe--though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now because it's in the past, because we have survived.

• The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Sorenson, Theodore

• Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged. (Decision-Making in the White House)

Soros, George

• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Sophocles

• No enemy is worse than bad advice.

• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Souferian, Shadi

• If one could only learn to appreciate the little things...
  A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear.
  The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see.
  The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who are homeless.
  Time spent with good friends for there are those who are lonely.
  A walk along the beach for there are those who cannot walk.
  The little things are what life is all about.
  Search your soul and learn to appreciate.

South, Robert

• Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Southey, Robert

• If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

• Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

• What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

Souza, Alfred D.

• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Spear, Grace

• The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Spector, Robert

• It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day. (Amazon.com: Get Big Fast)

Spencer, Herbert

• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Spender, Dale

• Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. (Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them)

Spender, Stephen

• I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spillane, Mickey

• If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Spinoza, Benedict (Baruch)

• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Spinrad, Leonard & Thelma

• "How will I ever get into the Metropolitan Museum of Art?" the aspiring young artist asked a great teacher. "You can either take the Fifth Avenue bus to 81st Street," said the teacher, "or work hard, be inspired, wait 20 years, and have them come to you."

Spolin, Viola

• First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.

Spong, John Shelby (Bishop)

• Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative. (" Bishop Spong Q&A on loving thy neighbor," 7/20/2005)

• The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out. (" Bishop Spong Q&A on loving thy neighbor," 7/20/2005)

• I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being. (Jesus for the Non Religious)

• Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity. (Jesus for the Non Religious)

• Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is. (Jesus for the Non Religious)

Springer, Cecile M.

• Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.

Springsteen, Bruce

• Remember, nobody wins unless everybody wins. (in Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s by Marsh)

Spurgeon, Charles

• Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.

• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Squire, Roger J.

• A wise person truly said, "It ought to be as impossible to forget that there is a Christian in the house as it is to forget that there is a ten-year-old boy in it." (Church Management)

St. James, Elaine

• Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.

St. Lawrence, Susan

• When your physical environment is in alignment with your aspiration, success becomes the norm.

Stael, Madame de

• Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end.

• The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Stamp, Josiah

• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

• The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

• Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

• There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

Stapleton, Ruth Carter

• Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

Starbuck, Edwin Diller

• A musician may suddenly reach a point at which pleasure in the technique of art entirely falls away, and in some moment of inspiration, he becomes the instrument through which music is played. (The Psychology of Religion)

Starhawk

• Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

• To choose is also to begin. (Dreaming the Dark)

Stark, Freya

• Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart... ("The Wise Men" Time and Tide)

• Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. (Over the Rum of the World by Morehead)

• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. (Ionia)

• On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Starr, Ralph Vaul

• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Statler Brothers (Harold Reid, Phil Balsley, Jimmy Fortune, Dan Reid)

• Money is the reward, but if it ever becomes the goal, you will lose sight of your dream and do things that make no one happy. (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)

Stebbing, L. Susan

• We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable. (Ideals and Illusions)

Stein, Ben

• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

• It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

• There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

• You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Stein, Gertrude

• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

• Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

• Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

• Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Gertrude Stein by Sprigge)

• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

• Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Steinbeck, John

• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit...

• I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept. (Steinbeck: a Life in Letters)

• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

• It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

• The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time. (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

Steinberg, Leigh

• Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. (America West)

Steinberg, Saul

• The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom.. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Steinem, Gloria

• The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

• Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

• The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

• I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again. ("A Balance Between Nature and Nuture" in This I Believe ed. by Allison and Gediman)

• It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

• It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

• The moment we find the reason behind an emotion … the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

• We teach what we need to learn. (Revelation From Within)

• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

• Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus

• There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

Stella, Lady Reading

• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Stephens, James

• Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying what you think yourself.

Stern, Ellen Sue

• Things that don't get better get worse. (The Indispensable Woman)

Stevenson, Adlai

• A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevens, Cat

• Take your time, think a lot,
  Think of everything you've got.
  For you will still be here tomorrow
  But your dreams may not.

Stevenson, John

• Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

• The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

• Don't write merely to be understood. Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ("Cheylard and Luc" Travels with a Donkey)

• If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

• Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

• Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

• Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.

Stewart, Lindsey

• When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.

Stone, W. Clement

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Stone, Willie

• Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.

Stopes, Marie

• You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stoppard, Tom

• Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Rosencrantz & Guldenstern Are Dead)

Storr, Anthony

• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. (Solitude: A Return to the Self)

Stovell, Jim

• Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

• You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. (Success Secrets of Super Achievers)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Straczynski, J. Michael

• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves. (email 9/1/2000)

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. ("The Long Twilight Struggle" Babylon 5)

• On the internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. (on the 'Net 11/20/99)

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Strait, C. Neil

• Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Stravinsky, Igor

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. ("Subject: Music" New York Times Magazine, 9/27/64)

Streep, Meryl

• Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Street, Picabo

• Adversity creates heroes.

Strehlow, Liz

• Make the best of today, for there is no tomorrow until after today.

Streisand, Barbra

• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. (People Magazine, May 31, 1993)

Strider, Errol

• Often we seek to grow or change ourselves by adjusting the external aspects of our lives. ... We all too often forget that permanent or real change only comes when the center of our being, our inner drives ad motivations, undergoes transformation.

Strieby, Matt

• Klamath Falls sits on a precarious wall that divides breathtaking panoramas and bleak landscapes of economic misery. When I'm in Klamath Falls, it looks to me like time stopped in 1960 and the entire town was covered by a numbing frost of hard times, hard luck and hard living. Ghosts from an all-American town still lurk in the shadows of long-empty downtown storefronts; faded yellow siding on a house hints at sunnier times. All of this sits paradoxically in the middle of some of the most hauntingly beautiful open sky country in the West. It is this country that redeems the town, and when I leave the basin, I know I've left God's country behind.

Strode, Muriel

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Strunk, William (Jr.)

• Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Struven, Mildred White

• A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

Stuart, Janet Erskine

• The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. (Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart)

Sue, Marsha Petrie (To order CEO of You Click here!)

• Are you in control of your time so you can live your life as a human being? Or is time controlling you so you have become a human doing? Are you do busy doing this and that for other people but never have time for yourself? (The CEO of You)

• Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. (The CEO of You)

• Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step. (The CEO of You)

Suenens, L. J.

• Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

The Sufi (1200 B.C.)

• Look to this day,
  For it is life, the very life of life.
  In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence;
  the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
  For yesterday is but a dream
  And tomorrow is only a vision,
  But today well lived makes
  every yesterday a dream of happiness
  and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
  Look well, therefore to this day,
  such is the salutation of the dawn.

Sullivan, Anne

• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

• People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Sullivan, Deirdre

• In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. ("Always Go to the Funeral" in This I Believe ed. by Allison and Gediman)

Sullivan, Ed

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

Sullivan, Gregory L.

• The excellence is in the details.

Sumner, Graham

• Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. (Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals)

Sunday, Billy

• More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Sunshine, Linda

• If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma." ("Mom Loves me Best" (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister))

• Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. ("Mom Loves me Best" (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister))

SunTzu

• To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Sutton, Kathleen A.

• When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

Suyin, Han

• All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

Suzuki, Shunryu

• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Swaim, Alice M.

• Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swami Brahmanada

• In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

• True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Sweeney, Paul

• True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweetland, Ben

• Success is a journey, not a destination.

• We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Swetchine Anne-Sophie (Madame)

• Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

• To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

• We are rich only through what we give.

Swift, Jonathan

• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Swindoll, Charles R.

• Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)

• Cultivate you own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

• If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it won word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

  All it takes is discipline--daily discipline, not annual discipline.

• People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

• The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

• The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

• When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)

• With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive! (Living Above the Level of Mediocrity)

Syrus, Publius

• Trust, like the soul, never returns, once it is gone.

Szasz, Thomas

• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

• A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

• Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit. ("Social Relations" in The Second Sin)

• Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Szent-Gyorgi, Albert

• A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. (in The Scientist Speculates ed. by Good)

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