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SACRIFICE : For your tomorrow, we gave our today. (Military veterans)
SADNESS : Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Jean de la Fontaine, French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)
SADNESS : A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. (John Steinbeck, U.S. writer and recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1902-1968)
SADNESS : I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes. (Norman MacEwan, U.S. writer, Born 1943))
SADNESS : The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in. (David Wolpe, U.S. Jewish rabbi, named the most influential rabbi in the U.S. by Newsweek Magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, Born 1958)
SAFETY : It is better to be safe than sorry. (U.S. proverb)
SAFETY : The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. (Tacitus, senator and a historian of the Roman Empire, 56-120 AD)
SANITY : Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
SATIRE : Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason . . . that so very few are offended by it. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and cleric 1667-1745)
SCARS : There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed. (Harry Crews, U.S. novelist and playwright, 1935-2012)
SCARS : There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed. (Unknown Source)
SCIENCE : The saddest aspect of life . . . is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
SCIENCE : I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. (Lawrence M. Krauss, U.S. theoretical physicist, Born 1954)
SCIENCE : I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. (Lawrence M. Krauss, U.S. theoretical physicist, Born 1954Ignorance: Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
SCIENCE : Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Robert King Merton, U.S. sociologist and professor at Columbia University, 1910-2003)
SCIENCE - RELIGION : Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. (Dan Brown, U.S. novelist, Born 1964)
SCIENCE - RELIGION : Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Robert King Merton, U.S. sociologist and professor at Columbia University, 1910-2003)
SCIENCE-SPIRITUALITY : Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)
SCIENCE-SPIRITUALITY : Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Ernest Renan, French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, philosopher, critic, and historian of religion. 1823-1892)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher whose work is one of the cornerstones of media theory, 1911-1980)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : The World would be a safer place, If someone had a plan: Before exploring Outer Space, To find the Inner Man. (E.Y. Harburg, popular song lyricist and librettist, 1896-1981)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. (William Osier, Canadian physician, known as the Father of Modern Medicine, 1849-1919)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : Art is I; science is we. (Claude Bernard, French physiologist who was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations, 1913-1878)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)
SCIENTISTS : One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. (Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945)
SCRIPTURE : Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. (The Bible)
SCULPTURE : Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. (Louisa May Alcott, U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women, 1832-1888)
SEA : Praise the sea; on shore remain. (John Florio, British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)
SEASONS : Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother. (Polish proverb)
SECOND LANGUAGE : To know another language is to have a second soul. (Charlemagne, King of the Franks who united most of western Europe during the early Middle Ages, 742-814)
SECRECY : No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. (Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)
SECRECY : What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. (Chinese proverb)
SECRECY : I know that's a secret, for It's whispered everywhere. (William Congreve, English playwright and poet, 1670-1729)
SECRECY : There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
SECULARISM : All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)
SECURITY : If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking . . . is freedom. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. five-star army general who served as the 34th president of the Unites States,1890-1969)
SECURITY : The way to be safe is never to be secure. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
SECURITY : It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. (Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)
SECURITY : Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. (Unknown source)
SECURITY : Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. (Joseph Wood Krutch, U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)
SECURITY : Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (William Congreve, English playwright and poet, 1670-1729)
SECURITY : Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SECURITY : Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death. (James F. Byrnes, U.S. udge and politician,, having served in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, and as governor of the state of South Carolina, 1882-1972)
SECURITY : People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)
SECURITY : Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
SELF - CONCEPT : Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. (Ellen DeGeneres, U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer Born 1958)
SELF - CONCEPT : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, diplomat, and activist who was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, 1884-1962)
SELF - CONCEPT : What others think of us would be of little moment had it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. (Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945)
SELF - CONCEPT : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Unknown Source)
SELF - IDENTITY : The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. (Unknown Source)
SELF - IDENTITY : Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
SELF - IDENTITY : It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)
SELF - IDENTITY : No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. (Nathaniel Hawthorne, English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)
SELF - IDENTITY : The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you found out why. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
SELF - IDENTITY : Life isn't about finding oneself. Life is about creating oneself. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
SELF - IDENTITY : The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. (Malcolm De Chazal, Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)
SELF - IDENTITY : We have met the enemy and he is us. (Walt Kelly, U.S. animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo, 1913-1973)
SELF - IDENTITY : Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Theodor Seuss Geisel [pen name of Dr. Seuss], U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books, 1904-1991)
SELF - IDENTITY : When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
SELF - IDENTITY : We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SELF - IDENTITY : What other people think about you is none of your business. (Unknown source)
SELF - IDENTITY : Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)
SELF - IDENTITY : Through others, we become ourselves. (Lev Vygotsky, Russian social psychologist, 1896-1934)
SELF - IDENTITY : To know everything about oneself one must know all about others. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : If one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be. (Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist and professor, 1908-1970)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Unknown source)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail (armorthat none can pierce. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown source)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but a democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas. (Richard D. Kahlenberg, U.S. scholar and advocate of the economic integration movement in K12 schooling)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Lewis Mumford, U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any (Alice Malsenior Walker, U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Self-complacency is fatal to progress. (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, U.S. author, 1838-1912)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, diplomat, and activist who was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, 1884-1962)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature who is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, 1911-2006)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : It is the questions in life that move us forward, not the answers. (Unknown source)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury, U.S. author and screenwriter, 1920-2012)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it. (Unknown source)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. (Native American proverb)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Improvement begins with I. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. (Robert Brault, U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. (Robert Tew)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Most of us grow up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing. (Marshall Rosenberg, U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice Malsenior Walker, U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Start where you are, but don’t stay there. (Unknown source)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher, 1821-1881)
SELF - UNDERSTANDING : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. (UNKNOWN SOURCE)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : As is our confidence, so is our capacity. (William Hazlitt, English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. (Joan Didion, U.S. writer and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, Born 1934)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist, Born 1934)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. (Stan Smith, U.S. tennis player, two-time Grand Slam singles champion and recipient of numerous other Grand Prix Championship titles. Born 1946)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : They are able because they think they are able. (Virgil, Roman poet who wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature, 70 – 19 B.C.E.)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us. ()
SELF-CONFIDENCE : Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. (Anthony Trollope, English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : Perhaps I am stronger than I think. (Thomas Merton, U.S. Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, 1915-1968)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. (Vince Lombardi, U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)
SELF-CONFIDENCE : Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert, Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England who also served briefly in the Parliament of England, 1593-1633)
SELF-CONTROL : Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)
SELF-CONTROL : He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty, (Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher, writer, and founder of the philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
SELF-CONTROL : What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the 'Father of Western Philosophy,' 384-322 BCE)
SELF-CONTROL : Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Unknown source)
SELF-CONTROL : Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
SELF-CONTROL : That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation. (Mary Parker Follett, U.S. social worker, pioneer in the fields of organizational theory, who has been called the 'Mother of Modern Management', 1868-1933)
SELF-CONTROL : Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. (Myrtle Reed, U.S. author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist, 1874-1911)
SELF-CONTROL : Self-control involves a minimum information given with maximum politeness. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy who was regarded as an international icon of style and culture, 1929-1994)
SELF-CONTROL : No man is free who is not master of himself. (Epicetus, Greek Stoic teacher and philosopher, 55 A.D.-135 A.D.)
SELF-CONTROL : I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies. (Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the 'Father of Western Philosophy,' 384-322 BCE)
SELF-CONTROL : He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (John Milton, English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England, best known for authoring his epic poem, Paradise Lost, 1608-1674)
SELF-IDENTITY : It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
SELF-IDENTITY : To thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SELF-IDENTITY : Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. (G.K. Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, 1874-1936)
SELF-IMAGE : Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. (Maxwell Maltz, U.S. cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics books, a forerunner of multiple self-help issues, 1889-1975)
SELF-IMAGE : As is our confidence, so is our capacity. (William Hazlitt, English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, and social commentator, 1778-1830)
SELF-IMAGE : Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. (Maxwell Maltz, U.S. cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics books, forerunners of multiple self-help issues, 1889-1975)
SELF-LOVE : He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot [pen name for Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819=1880)
SELF-LOVE : He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
SELF-PITY : What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. (Oliver Wilson, English professional golfer, Born 1980)
SELF-PITY : Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. (Unknown source)
SELF-PITY : I just want to make sure my life doesn't end with a whine. (Barbara Gordon, fictional superhero appearing in U.S. comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero 'Batman'.)
SELF-PITY : A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. (Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)
SELF-PITY : It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. (Lena Horne, U.S. singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist, 1917-2010)
SELF-RELIANCE : Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. (Flora Robson, English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, 1902-1984)
SELF-RELIANCE : God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. (Josiah G. Holland, U.S. novelist, poet, and co-founder/editor of Scribner's Monthly, 1819-1881)
SELF-RELIANCE : If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. (Jonathan Winters, U.S. comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist, 1925-2013)
SELF-RELIANCE : Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. (Clementine Paddleford, U.S. food writer, writing for several publications about regional cuisines in the U.S. 1898-1967)
SELF-RELIANCE : I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. (William E. Henley, English poet, critic and editor, 1849-1903)
SELF-RELIANCE : Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. (Frank Tyger, U.S. author of puns and quotes, newspaper columnist, and editorial cartoonist, 1929-2011)
SELF-RELIANCE : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE : It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. (Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)
SELF-RELIANCE : I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. (Meryl Streep, U.S. actress, often described as the best actress of her generation, Born 1949)
SELF-RELIANCE : An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
SELF-RELIANCE : We're all in this together . . . alone. (Lily Tomlin, U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer, Born 1939)
SELF-RELIANCE : No one can really pull you up very high when you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the “People's Lawyer,” 1856-1941)
SELF-RELIANCE : We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angelis, U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951)
SELF-RELIANCE : There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. (John Gay, English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)
SELF-RELIANCE : It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. (Betty Friedan, U.S. writer, activist, and feminist who is credited with sparking the second wave of U.S. feminism, 1963-2006)
SELF-RELIANCE : The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours. (Jules Jusserano, French author and diplomat who was the French Ambassador to the U.S. during World War 1, 1855-1932)
SELF-RELIANCE : Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. (Sydney Phillips, U.S. family physician, 1924-2015)
SELF-RELIANCE : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE : Every man paddles his own canoe. (Frederick Marryat, British Royal Navy officer and novelist, noted today for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling known as Marryat's Code. )
SELF-RELIANCE : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and poet, best known for her novel, Little Women, 1832-1888)
SELF-RELIANCE : If it is to be, it is up to me. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE : I leave before being left. I decide. (Brigitte Bardot, French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934)
SELF-RELIANCE : If there is no wind, row. (Latin proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE : No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
SELF-RELIANCE : recovery are both from within. (Epicetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55 A.D.-135 A.D.)
SELF-RELIANCE : If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. (Amy Tan, U.S. writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience, Born 1952)
SELF-RELIANCE : What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies . . . the real man. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, 121 A.D.-180 A.D.)
SELF-RELIANCE : The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. (Robert M. Pirsig, U.S. writer and philosopher, 1928-2017)
SELF-RELIANCE : Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Alexis Carrel, Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering vascular suturing techniques, 1873-1944)
SELF-RELIANCE : Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. (H.F. Hedge, U.S. Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist, 1805-1890)
SELF-RELIANCE : What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. (Mignon McLaughlin, U.S. journalist and author, 1913-1983)
SELF-RELIANCE : There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)
SELF-RELIANCE : Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. (Samuel Lover, Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, 1797-1868)
SELF-RELIANCE : Circumstances--what are circumstances? I make circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader during the French Revolution who also served twice as Emperor of the French, 1769-1821)
SELF-RELIANCE : Heaven and hell is right now . . . You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions. (George Harrison, English musician, singer-songwriter, and music/film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, 1943-2001)
SELF-RELIANCE : The proverb warns that You should not bite that hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. (Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)
SELF-RELIANCE : Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. (John Donne, English poet, and cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631)
SELF-RELIANCE : Let me listen to me and not to them. (Gertrude Stein, U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946)
SELF-RELIANCE : Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality. (Chinese proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE : If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. (Albert Camus, French philosopher, author, journalist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913-1960)
SELF-RELIANCE : The gods help those who help themselves. (Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar and writer, 116-B.C.E.- 27 B.C.E.)
SELF-RELIANCE : Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. (Frank Tyger, U.S. author of puns and quotes, newspaper columnist, and editorial cartoonist, 1929-2011)
SELF-RELIANCE : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE : It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. (Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)
SELF-RELIANCE : I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. (Meryl Streep, U.S. actress, often described as the best actress of her generation, Born 1949)
SELF-RELIANCE : An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
SELF-RELIANCE : We're all in this together . . . alone. (Lily Tomlin, U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer, Born 1939)
SELF-RELIANCE : No one can really pull you up very high when you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the “People's Lawyer,” 1856-1941)
SELF-RELIANCE : We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angelis, U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951)
SELF-RELIANCE : There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. (John Gay, English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)
SELF-RELIANCE : It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. (Betty Friedan, U.S. writer, activist, and feminist who is credited with sparking the second wave of U.S. feminism, 1963-2006)
SELF-RELIANCE : The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours. (Jules Jusserano, French author and diplomat who was the French Ambassador to the U.S. during World War 1, 1855-1932)
SELF-RELIANCE : Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. (Sydney Phillips, U.S. family physician, 1924-2015)
SELF-RELIANCE : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE : Every man paddles his own canoe. (Frederick Marryat, British Royal Navy officer and novelist, noted today for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling known as Marryat's Code. )
SELF-RELIANCE : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and poet, best known for her novel, Little Women, 1832-1888)
SELF-RELIANCE : If it is to be, it is up to me. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE : I leave before being left. I decide. (Brigitte Bardot, French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934)
SELF-RELIANCE : If there is no wind, row. (Latin proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE : No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
SELF-SACRIFICE : Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (The Bible)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Unknown source)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature who is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, 1911-2006)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : If one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be. (Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist and professor, 1908-1970)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice Malsenior Walker, U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Improvement begins with I. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. (Robert Tew)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury, U.S. author and screenwriter, 1920-2012)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. (Robert Brault, U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Most of us grow up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing. (Marshall Rosenberg, U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of chainmail [armor] that none can pierce. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Self-complacency is fatal to progress. (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, U.S. author, 1838-1912)
SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Start where you are, but don't stay there. (Unknown source)
SELFISHNESS : The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. (Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist and poet, 1784-1859)
SENSES : Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
SENSES : Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
SENSITIVITY : The longest journey you will make in your life is from your head to your heart. (Sioux Legend)
SERVICE : The benchmark of greatness is finding joy in loving and serving others. (Unknown Source)
SERVICE : I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore, a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)
SERVICE : He profits most who serves best. (Arthur F. Sheldon, British joint founding president, of the Institute of Economic Affairs where he directed editorial affairs and publishing for more than thirty years, 1916-2005)
SERVICE : 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. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
SERVICE : I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service, happiness is found. (Unknown Source)
SERVICE : The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth. (Wilfred Grenfell, British medical missionary to Newfoundland, 1865-1940)
SEX : The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. (Madame de Stael, French writer, 1766-1817)
SEX : There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible. (P.J. O'Rourke, U.S. political satirist and journalist, Born 1947)
SEX : Sex is like money; only too much is enough. (John Updike, U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009)
SEX : Sex is the poor man's polo. (Clifford Odets, U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and director, 1906-1963)
SEX : I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands. (Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, musician and composer, 1935-2002)
SEX : The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. (Bill Maher, U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956)
SEX : Sex is an emotion in motion. (Mae West, U.S. actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol, 1893-1980)
SEX : Sex is the great amateur art. (David Cort, U.S. writer (journalist, columnist, editor, and author, 1904-1983)
SEX : Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. (Rimy de Gourmont, French poet, novelist, and influential critic, 1858-1915)
SEX : The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. (Brendan Francis, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)
SEX : Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. (Woody Allen, U.S. director, writer, actor, and comedian who's been highly ranked as a great stand-up comedian, Born, 1935)
SEX : It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. (Margaret Thatcher, British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office - nicknamed the “Iron Lady,” 1925-2013)
SEX : Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter. (Milton Berle, U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002)
SEX : Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them. (Abigail Van Buren, (Abigail Van Buren, U.S. advice columnist who authored the “Dear Abby” column, 1918-2013)
SEX - MARRIAGE : God created sex; priests created marriage. (Unknown Source)
SEX - MARRIAGE : God created sex; priests created marriage. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
SHADOWS : Coming events cast their shadows before. (Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844)
SHADOWS : Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses, and memories. (Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)
SHADOWS : Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. (Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)
SHADOWS : Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. (Unknown Source)
SHADOWS : Shadow owes its birth to light. (John Gay, English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)
SHADOWS : Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. (From poem, The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot, British writer, literary and social critic who renounced his U.S. citizenship, 1888-1965)
SHAKESPEARE : He was not of an age, but for all time! (Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright who is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I, 1572-1637)
SHAKESPEARE : Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. (Thomas Macaulay, British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)
SHAME : I count him lost, who is lost to shame. (Platus, Roman playwright whose comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety, 254 B.C.E.–184 B.C.E.)
SHAME : The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone. (Milan Kundera, Czech-born French writer, Born 1929)
SHIPS : Ships are but boards, sailors but men. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SHOEMAKING : Him that makes shoes goes barefoot himself. (Henry Burton, English puritan whose ears were cut off in 1637 for writing pamphlets attacking the views of Archbishop Laud, 1578-1648)
SHOPPING : When you feel less than, you spend more than. (Suze Orman, U.S. author, financial advisor, and television host, Born 1951)
SHOPPING : When you feel less than, you spend more than. (Unknown Source)
SICKNESS : Prevention is better than cure. (Erasmus, Dutch philosopher and Christian humanist whose works were later influential in the Christian Reformation movement, 1466-1536)
SILENCE : One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. (Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State, and one of the longest serving individuals in that office, 1909-1994)
SILENCE : Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SILENCE : Better silent than stupid. (German proverb)
SILENCE : It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent. (Jean de la Bruyere, French philosopher and moralist, known for his satire, 1645-1696)
SILENCE : I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. (Calvin Coolidge, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)
SILENCE : It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. (Greek proverb)
SILENCE : Speech is silver; silence is golden. (German proverb)
SILENCE : Still waters run deep. (English proverb)
SILENCE : Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty. (John Jewell, English Bishop of Salisbury and a key figure in the Christian Reformation movement, 1522-1571)
SILENCE : I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings, aphorisms and maxims, 1st Century B.C.E.)
SILENCE : Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)
SILENCE : Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. (Epicetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55 A.D.-135 A.D.)
SILENCE : The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and travel writer, Scottish novelist and travel writer, best known for his book Treasure Island, among others, 1850-1894)
SILENCE : The silent dog is the first to bite. (Old proverb)
SILENCE : Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books-both novels and non-fiction works, 1894-1963)
SILENCE : Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. (Amelia Barr, British teacher and novelist who wrote about the capacity of women to be successful, 1831-1919)
SILENCE : I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
SILENCE : Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor. (Ginetta Sagan, Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience, 1925-2000)
SILENCE : First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialistThen they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionistThen they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a JewThen they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out. (Martin Niemoller, German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984)
SILENCE : Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. (Pythagoras, Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician, who is best known for the Pythagorean theorem and whose ideas are said to have had a marked influence on Plato, c.570–495 BCE)
SILENCE : First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945)
SILENCE - PROTEST : To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)
SILENCE - PROTEST : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Unknown Source)
SILENCE - PROTEST : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
SILENCE - PROTEST : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
SILENCE - PROTEST : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Unknown Source)
SILENCE - PROTEST : We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. (Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and U.S. statesman and reformer, 1829-1906)
SILENCE - PROTEST : Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. (Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1921-1997)
SILENCE - PROTEST : The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
SILENCE - PROTEST : Silence is complicity. (Unknown Source)
SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)
SIMPLICITY : A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal. (Muriel Humphrey, U.S. politician who, as the wife of Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, served as the Second Lady of the United States and later as a U.S. Senator, 1912-1998)
SIMPLICITY : Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. (W. Somerset Maugham, English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, 18874-1965)
SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. (Unknown source)
SIMPLICITY : The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. (William Gibbs, English businessman, 1790=1875)
SIMPLICITY : Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. (C.W. Ceram, German journalist and editor, 1915-1972)
SIMPLICITY : The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
SIMPLICITY : Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious. (Anatol France, French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)
SIMPLICITY : The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. (Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)
SIMPLICITY : Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. (Vauvenargues, French writer, 1715-1747)
SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Unknown Source)
SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)
SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)
SIN : It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere, French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature, 1622-1673)
SIN : He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. (The Bible)
SIN : So many laws argue so many sins. (John Milton, English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England, best known for authoring his epic poem, Paradise Lost, 1608-1674)
SIN-VIRTUE : Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SINCERITY : Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. (James Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)
SINS : Sin is geographical. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
SINS : All sins cast long shadows. (Irish Proverb)
SISTERS : To strengthen whilst one stands. For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / (Christina Rossetti, English children's poet, 1830-1894)
SISTERS : For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands. (Christina Rossetti, English poet, 1830-1894)
SKEPTICISM : With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another. (G.C. Lichtenberg, German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799)
SKEPTICISM : Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. (Latin proverb)
SKEPTICISM : The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
SKEPTICISM : William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
SKEPTICISM : It's a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
SKEPTICISM : The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. His culture is based on I am not too sure. (H.L. Mencken, German-American journalist and social critic, 1880-1956)
SKY : And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it as impotently moves as you or I. (Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048-1131)
SLANDER : I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SLANDER : Trying to kill slander keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)
SLAVERY : I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865)
SLAVERY : If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
SLAVERY : As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
SLAVERY : The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master. (Unknown source)
SLAVERY : The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
SLAVERY : The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
SLAVERY : The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome: The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
SLEEP : Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. (Thomas Dekker, U.S. film, television actor, and musician, Born 1993)
SLEEP : O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SLEEP - RICHES - HEALTH : For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. (Unknown Source)
SLEEP - RICHES - HEALTH : For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)
SMILES : Smiles are contagious. Pass them around. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)
SMILES : They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. What goes around, comes around. (Susan RoAne, U.S. speaker and author of several self-help books, Born 1945)
SNEER : A sneer is the weapon of the weak. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. poet, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY : The welfare of each of us is dependent upon the welfare of all of us. (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President-as quoted upon seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, 1858-1919)
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY : The welfare of each of us is dependent upon the welfare of all of us. (Unknown Source)
SOCIAL JUSTICE : We must draw the critical connections between lives lost to intentional violent acts and lives lost to structural injustices — impoverishment and inequality — around the world. (Salih Booker, U.S. administrator of human rights organization, Born 1958)
SOCIAL JUSTICE : Education and information without the guiding principles of love and justice lead to the development of guided missiles and misguided men and women. (Unknown Source)
SOCIAL JUSTICE : The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. (Unknown Source)
SOCIAL JUSTICE : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Unknown Source)
SOCIAL JUSTICE : The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
SOCIAL JUSTICE : We must draw the critical connections between lives lost to intentional violent acts and lives lost to structural injustices - impoverishment and inequality - around the world. (Salih Booker, U.S. administrator of human rights organization, Born 1958)
SOCIALISM : Many people consider the things government does for them to be Social Progress, but theregard the things government does for others as Socialism. (Earl Warren, U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)
SOCIETY : What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger, U.S. psychiatrist, 1893-1990)
SOCIETY : It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)
SOCIETY : The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. (Unknown Source)
SOCIETY : Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. (French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794)
SOCIETY : To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
SOCIETY : The seven social sins are: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity: Worship without sacrifice; Worship without sacrifice. (Frederick Lewis Donaldson, British Christian socialist who served as Canon of Westminster Abbey, 1860-1953)
SOCIETY : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. (Henry George, U.S. socialist economist and journalist, 1839-1897)
SOLDIER : Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
SOLIDATIRY : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. (African Proverb)
SOLITUDE : I was never less alone than when by myself., (Edward Gibbon, English historian, writer and Member of Parliament, 1737-1794)
SOLITUDE : I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
SOLITUDE : I was never less alone than when by myself. (Edward Gibbon, English historian, Member of Parliament, and writer of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1737-1794)
SOLITUDE : I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
SOLITUDE : Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)
SOLITUDE : One can acquire everything in solitude but character. (Stendhal, French writer, 1783-1842)
SOLITUDE : Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. (Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1914-1998)
SOLITUDE : We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. (Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1911-1983)
SOLITUDE : Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. (Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)
SOLITUDE : In solitude, when we are least alone. (Lord Byron, English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)
SOLITUDE : The strongest man is the one who stands most alone. (Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828=1906)
SOLUTIONS : Never cut what you can untie. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
SORROW : The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist (Unknown Source)
SORROW : The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
SORROW : The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist (1835-1918)
SORROW : If there be sorrow / let it be / for things undone / undreamed / unrealized unattained / to these add one: / Love withheld ... / restrained. (Mari Evans, U.S. poet, 1919-2017)
SORROW : The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist 1835-1918 (Henry Maudsley)
SORROW : Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the ground-breaking book, Death and Dying, 1926-2004)
SORROW : The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. (The Talmud)
SORROW : When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions! (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-161)
SORROW : The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SORROW : While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SORROW : Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. (Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1802-1885)
SORROW : All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer whose novel, Don Quixote, has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the Bible, the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)
SORROW : There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (J.H. Vincent, U.S. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1832-1920)
SOUL : Participating in the arts--drawing, dancing, and all that---makes the soul grow. That's why you engage in it. That's how you grow a soul. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)
SOUL : Soul appears when we make room for it. (Thomas Moore, Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, 1779-1852)
SOUL : I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. (W.E. Henley, English poet, critic and editor, 1849-1903)
SOUL : What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (The Bible)
SOUND : The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
SPEECH : Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. (John Andrew Holmes, U.S. poet and literary critic, 1904-1962)
SPEECH : Speech is the index of the mind. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)
SPEECH : Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SPEECH : Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)
SPEECH : Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. (Propertius, Latin elegiac poet, who is regarded by scholars today as a major poet, c. 50-45 - 15 B.C.E.)
SPEECH : I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
SPEECH : Language most shows a man: speak, that I may see thee. (Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy, 1572-1637)
SPEECH : There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. (Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)
SPEECH : Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. (Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, 106-43 B.C.E.)
SPEECH : Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)
SPEECH : . . . 'tis his at last who says it best. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)
SPEECH : To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both. (Elizabeth Charles, English writer, 1828-1896)
SPEECH : Winston [Churchill] devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches. F.E. Smith, British politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and close friend of Winston Churchill, 1870-1930) ()
SPEECH : Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
SPEECH : Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. (Herbert Gardner, U.S. commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter, 1934-2003)
SPEECH : The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. (Thomas Macaulay, British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)
SPEECH : Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot, English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of her era, 1819-1880)
SPEECHES : A word in earnest is as good as a speech. (Charles Dickens, British novelist, 1812-1870)
SPEECHES : A word in earnest is as good as a speech. (Charles Dickens, U.S. novelist, 1812-1870Protest: Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary and poet, 1853-1895Abuse: I and the public know. / What all schoolchildren learn. / Those to whom evil is done. / Do evil in return. (W.H. Auden, English-American poet, 1907-1973Self-Identity: Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
SPEED : There is more to life than increasing its speed. (Unknown Source)
SPEED : There is more to life than increasing its speed. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
SPIRITUALITY : The telling question of a person's life is one's relationship with the infinite. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)
SPIRITUALITY : Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. (William Newton Clark, U.S. Baptist theologian and professor, 1840-1912)
SPIRITUALITY : When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself. (Dean Ornish, U.S. physician, researcher and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Born 1953)
SPORTS : Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. (Ty Cobb, U.S. Major League Baseball outfielder who in 1936 received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame, 1886-1961)
SPORTS : Sports help girls and women to perceive their bodies as instruments, not just ornaments. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)
SPORTS : Citius, altius, forties - Swifter, higher, stronger. (Motto of the Olympic Games)
SPORTS : The game isn't over until it's over. (Yogi Berra, U.S. professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1925-2015)
SPORTS : When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
SPORTS : Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. (Johnny Bench, U.S. former professional baseball catcher and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Born 1947)
SPORTS : International sport is war without shooting. (George Orwell, English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)
SPORTS : Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. (Bill Bradley, U.S. politician and former professional basketball player, Born 1943)
SPORTS : Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion, or wealth. (Unknown source)
STAMINA : You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)
STARS : Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky! (Unknown source)
STARS : These blessed candles of the night. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
STATES : States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)
STORY-TELLING : I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. (Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian.)
STRATEGIES : When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby. (Nigerian proverb)
STRENGTH : Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. (Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1802-1885)
STRENGTH : No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. (Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher, 106-43 B.C.E.)
STRENGTH : The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)
STRENGTH : What does not destroy me, makes me strong. (Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
STRENGTH : If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination in 1963, 1917-1963)
STRENGTH : The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)
STRENGTH : Fear is stronger than arms. (Aeschylus, Greek tragedian, 525-456 B.C.E.)
STRENGTH - WISDOM : It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
STRENGTH - WISDOM : It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Unknown Source)
STUBBORNESS : In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. (Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, intellectual, political activist, and feminist, 1908-1986)
STUBBORNESS : If you never budge, don't expect a push. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)
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STUDY : Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. (The Talmud)
STUPIDITY : We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
STUPIDITY : Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1759-1805)
STYLE : Style is the dress of thoughts. (Philip Stanhope [4th Earl of Chesterfield], British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
SUCCESS : Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed. (Booker T. Washington, U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)
SUCCESS : Winning a game has never been my standard of success; rather, it's the sense of satisfaction when I've done the best of my capability. (John Wooden, U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)
SUCCESS : For people who want to succeed in life, the following four-letter words are recommended: 'work', 'risk', 'guts', and 'zest'. (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)
SUCCESS : Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)
SUCCESS : One definition of success might be: refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger. (Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian-American poet, aphorist and essayist, Born 1973)
SUFFERING : In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. (Unknown Source)
SUFFERING : The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)
SUFFERING : It requires more courage to suffer than to die. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader during the French Revolution who also served twice as Emperor of the French, 1769-1821)
SUFFERING : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
SUFFERING : In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. (Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)
SUFFERING : Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Edwin H. Chapin, U.S. poet and preacher, 1814-1880)
SUFFERING : Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
SUPERSTITION : The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Unknown Source)
SUPERSTITION : The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)
SUPPORT : Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. (Archimedes, Greek inventor, physicist, and engineer, c. 287-212 BCE)
SUPPORT : Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. (Archimedes, Greek inventor, physicist, and engineer, c. 287-212 BCEOpportunity: Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. (Archimedes, Greek inventor, physicist, and engineer, c. 287-212 BCEExtremism: Perfect can be the enemy of good. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
SUPPORT : You don't have to fix anyone. Just be available to do your part. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)
SUSTAINABILITY : I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E.B. White, U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children’s book, Charlotte’s Web, 1899-1985)
SYNERGY : Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. (Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, and theologian, 1207-1273)
SYNTHESIS : Thesis, antithesis, synthesis - most of us only take the first or second steps. (Edward Craig,English academic philosopher and first-class cricketer, Born 1942)