MY FAVORITE QUOTES

BY AUTHORS - "S"

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. (Alan Saporta)

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
(Vidal Sassoon)

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. (Walter M. Schirra, Sr.)

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. (Seneca)

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (Shakespeare)

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. (George Bernard Shaw)

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. (G.B. Shaw)

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

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream that never were and ask why not. (G.B. Shaw)

You see things and say, "Why?", but I dream things and say, "Why not?"
(G.B. Shaw)

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills)

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
(B.F. Skinner)

Let him that would move the world first move himself. (Socrates)

Perfect is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de St. Exupery)

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. (Charles Steinmetz)

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. (James Stephen)

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. (W. Clement Stone)

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
(Kathleen A. Sutton)

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Updated: August 16, 1998

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