SACRIFICE : For your tomorrow, we gave our today. (Unknown Source: )

SACRIFICE : Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Unknown Source: )

SACRIFICE : If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

SACRIFICE : My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.' (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996)

SACRIFICE : People neglect their own fields and go weed the fields of others. (Unknown Source: )

SACRIFICE : There is no knowledge without sacrifice. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

SACRIFICES : Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SACRIFICES : Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

SACRIFICES : Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. (A.P.J. Abdul Lalam: Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served from 2002-2007 as the president of India, 1931-2015)

SADNESS : A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

SADNESS : Anger is the camouflage of sadness. (Unknown Source: )

SADNESS : Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)

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 : If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

SADNESS : It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. (Aristotle Onassis: Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)

SADNESS : One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

SADNESS : Sadness and gladness succeed each other. (Unknown Source: )

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 : 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 identified as 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. (Unknown Source: )

SAFETY : Praise the sea; on shore remain. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)

SAFETY : Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

SAFETY : 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: )

SAFETY : The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. (Unknown Source: )

SAGES : The sage wears rough clothing and holds the jewel in his heart. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

SAILING : Sailing is . . . running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

SAILING : There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

SAINTS : A saint is a dead sinner revised and edited. (Ambrose Bierce: U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)

SAINTS : Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

SAINTS : Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

SALESMANSHIP : He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle. (Unknown Source: )

SALESMANSHIP : When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. (Robert T. Kiyosaki: Japanese-U.S. entrepreneur and author, Born 1947)

SALT WATER : The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. (Karen Blixen: Danish author, 1885-1962)

SANITY : Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SANITY : Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

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, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

SATISFACTION : To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SAVAGERY : Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. (Unknown Source: )

SAVINGS : A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SAVINGS : How man millioinaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? (Robert G. Allen: U.S. author and influential investment advisor, Born 1948)

SAYINGS : What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834)

SCARINESS : A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

SCARS : The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. (Unknown Source: )

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)

SCHEDULING : Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. (Richard Whately: English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic, and theologian, 1787-1863)

SCHEDULING : Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

SCHIZOPHRENIA : If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

SCHOLARS : A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024)

SCHOLARS : The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

SCHOOLS : A school cannot make the sun rise, but it can let the light in. (Unknown Source: )

SCHOOLS : When you open a school, you close a jail. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

SCIENCE : Art is made to disturb, science reassures. (George Braque: French painter, collagist, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, and a key figure in the development of Cubism, along with his colleague, Picasso, 1882-1963)

SCIENCE : Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

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 don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer? (Robert Orben: U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)

SCIENCE : I don't think that by studying science you will be forced to conclude that there must be a God. But if you have already found God, then you can say, from understanding science, "Ah, I see what God has done in the world." (Carl Feit: U.S. cancer biologist at Yeshiva University and a Talmudic scholar, Born 1946)

SCIENCE : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy: English novelist and poet who was highly critical of much in Victorian society, 1840-1928)

SCIENCE : If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. (E. O. Wilson: U.S. biologist, researcher, and theorist, Born 1929)

SCIENCE : In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. (Jerry Coyne: U.S. scientist and biology professor, known for his numerous publications on the theory of evolution, Born, 1949)

SCIENCE : In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite. (Paul Dirac: English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics 1902-1984)

SCIENCE : 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, one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and known ast he 'Father of Modern Medicine,' 1849-1919)

SCIENCE : In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

SCIENCE : Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Robert K. Merton: U.S. sociologist and professor at Columbia University, 1910-2003)

SCIENCE : Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. (Claude Bernard: French physiologist who was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations, 1813-1878)

SCIENCE : 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)

SCIENCE : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

SCIENCE : Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SCIENCE : Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. (Dan Brown: U.S. novelist, Born 1964)

SCIENCE : Science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species. (Nigel Calder: British science writer, 1931-2014)

SCIENCE : Science investigates; religion interprets . . . . The two are not rivals. (Martin L. 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 : Science is built with facts as a house is with stones, but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. (Jules H. Poincare: French polymath —mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science,1854-1912)

SCIENCE : Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. (Joseph Roux: French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist, 1834-1905)

SCIENCE : 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 : 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)

SCIENCE : Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

SCIENCE : Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. (Hal Clement: U.S. science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre, 1922-2003)

SCIENCE : The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. (Ayn Rand: Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter, 1905-1982)

SCIENCE : The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Thomas H. Huxley: English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy and was an advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, 1825-1895)

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 : The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. (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 : 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, 1813-1878)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if her will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood 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 : 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 : Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin L. 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 : 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 : The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

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 : The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. (Tim Berners-Lee: British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the 'World Wide Web' and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Born 1955)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan: Before exploring Outer Space, To find the Inner Man. (Yip Harburg: Popular song lyricist and librettist, 1896-1981)

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY : We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

SCREENPLAY : You can't take it with you. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991)

SCRUPLES : The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

SCRUTINY : What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

SCULPTURE : I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564)

SEA : Love the sea? I dote upon it—from the beach. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

SEA : The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

SEARCHES : When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

SEARCHING : How do I work? I grope. (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)

SEARCHING : If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

SEARCHING : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. (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)

SEASHORE : Heart is sea, language is shore. Whatever sea includes will hit the shore. (Rumi: 13th-century Persian 13th century poet, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)

SEASHORE : The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

SEASONS : Spring is a virgin / Summer a mother / Autumn a widow / and Winter a stepmother. (Unknown Source: )

SEASONS : The beauty of autumn is a reminder that change can be beautiful. (Unknown Source: )

SEASONS : There is no season such delight can bring / As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring. (William Browne: English pastoral poet, educated at Exeter College in England, 1591-1645)

SECRECY : I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. (Robert A. Heinlein: U.S. science-Fiction writer, often called the 'dean of science-fiction writers,' 1907-1988)

SECRECY : I know that's a secret, for It's whispered everywhere. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

SECRECY : If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

SECRECY : Mum is the word. (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)

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 : Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. (Unknown Source: )

SECRECY : Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. (Paul Tournier: Swiss physician and author, 1898-1986)

SECRECY : There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SECRECY : There is a skeleton in every house. (Unknown Source: )

SECRECY : There is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. (Joseph Pulitzer: Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher, 1847-1911)

SECRECY : Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SECRECY : Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SECRECY : What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. (Unknown Source: )

SECULARISM : All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All religions, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay: U.S. attorney, statesman, and orator, 1777-1852)

SECURITY : Courage demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)

SECURITY : I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people. (Unknown Source: )

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. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

SECURITY : It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. (Dag Hammarskjold: Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)

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 depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. (Joseph W. Krutch: U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)

SECURITY : Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

SECURITY : The best armor is to keep out of range. (Italian Proverb: )

SECURITY : The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. (Unknown Source: )

SECURITY : The way to be safe is never to be secure. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SECURITY : Those who prefer security over civil rights deserve neither security nor civil rights. (Unknown Source: )

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. judge 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 : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Unknown Source: )

SEIZE THE MOMENT : Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : One reason birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-ACCEPTANCE : What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39))

SELF-ACCEPTNESS : Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SELF-ACTUALIZATION : The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

SELF-ANALYSIS : Fear is only deep as the mind allows. (Japanese Proverb: )

SELF-ANALYSIS : Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-ANALYSIS : People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-ANALYSIS : The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. (Thomas E. Brown: British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897)

SELF-ANALYSIS : Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-ASSURANCE : A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. (Sidney Greenberg: US. rabbi and author, 1917-2003)

SELF-ASSURANCE : I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude. (Eston Williams: U.S. Methodist pastor)

SELF-ASSURANCE : Self-assurance is two-thirds of success. (Gaelic proverb: )

SELF-ASSURANCE : Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936)

SELF-AUTHENTICITY : There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. RISK! (Drew Barrymore: U.S. actress, producer, director, and talk show host, Born 1975)

SELF-AWARENESS : A guilty conscience needs no accuser (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400)

SELF-AWARENESS : A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-AWARENESS : A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. (Charles E. Hughes: U.S. statesman, Governor of New York, and jurist in the Supreme Court, 1862-1948)

SELF-AWARENESS : A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you’re keeping. (Kenneth Tynan: English theater critic and writer, 1927-1980)

SELF-AWARENESS : A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

SELF-AWARENESS : A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain. (Llewelyn Powers: U.S. lawyer and politician, 1836-1908)

SELF-AWARENESS : Adversity introduces a man to himself. (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-AWARENESS : All our interior world is reality—and perhaps more so than our apparent world. (Marc Chagall: Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin whose creations include virtually every artistic format, 1887-1985)

SELF-AWARENESS : All relationships are important because they reveal the true nature of the relationship we have with ourselves. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-AWARENESS : All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SELF-AWARENESS : All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

SELF-AWARENESS : Be who you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. (Arthur Ashe: U.S. professional tennis player who was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open, Born 1943)

SELF-AWARENESS : Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

SELF-AWARENESS : Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight Moody: U.S. evangelist and publisher, 1837-1899)

SELF-AWARENESS : Do not depend on other people as a source of your happiness or for approval. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943)

SELF-AWARENESS : Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility! (Unknown Source: )

SELF-AWARENESS : Doubt everything. Find your own light. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

SELF-AWARENESS : Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has. (John-Baptiste A. Karr: French critic, journalist, and novelist, 1808-1890)

SELF-AWARENESS : For inner peace, the most important thing is to forgive, whether or not the other person accepts his fault or your forgiveness. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

SELF-AWARENESS : He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

SELF-AWARENESS : He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

SELF-AWARENESS : Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. (Mary B. Eddy: U.S. writer and leader who established the Church of Christ Scientist, founded 'The Christian Science Monitor,' a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women's National Hall of Fame, 1821-1910)

SELF-AWARENESS : How do I know what I think until I can hear what I say? (Francis Crick: English molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize recipient who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule, 19916-2004)

SELF-AWARENESS : How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. (Trina Paulus: U.S. author and advocate of holistic health and spiritual search, Born 1931)

SELF-AWARENESS : How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

SELF-AWARENESS : I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944)

SELF-AWARENESS : I cried because I had no shoes. Then I saw a man who had no feet. (Helen A. 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-AWARENESS : I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, Born 1937)

SELF-AWARENESS : 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-AWARENESS : I have everything I need to be happy right between my ears. (Jane Jarvis: U.S. jazz pianist who was also known for her work as a composer, baseball stadium organist, and music industry executive, 1915-2010)

SELF-AWARENESS : I think, therefore I am. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

SELF-AWARENESS : I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SELF-AWARENESS : If someone values you only when you're about to walk out the door, you should definitely keep walking. (Lisa Duncan: U.S. author)

SELF-AWARENESS : If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)

SELF-AWARENESS : It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in a while and be sure we have the things money can't buy. (George H. Lorimer: U.S. journalist, author, and publisher, who is best known as the editor for 37 years of 'The Saturday Evening Post,' 1867-1937)

SELF-AWARENESS : Learn how to bend, and you’ll never have to break. (Aesop Fable: )

SELF-AWARENESS : Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SELF-AWARENESS : Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SELF-AWARENESS : Men are not against women; they are merely for themselves. (Gene Fowler: U.S. journalist and author, 1890-1960)

SELF-AWARENESS : Men have become the tools of their tools. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SELF-AWARENESS : Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

SELF-AWARENESS : 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 (NVC) process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)

SELF-AWARENESS : My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

SELF-AWARENESS : Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

SELF-AWARENESS : Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. (Bruce Barton: U.S. author, advertising executive, and politician, 1886-1967)

SELF-AWARENESS : Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

SELF-AWARENESS : One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

SELF-AWARENESS : One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. (Sara J. Duncan: Canadian author and journalist, 1861-1922)

SELF-AWARENESS : One must want to experience the great problems with one’s body and one’s soul. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SELF-AWARENESS : Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. (John C. Mitchell: , U.S. professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University)

SELF-AWARENESS : People are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent. (Horace Walpole: English novelist and art historian,1717-1797)

SELF-AWARENESS : Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

SELF-AWARENESS : Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. (Hosea Ballou: U.S. Universalist clergyman, 1771-1852)

SELF-AWARENESS : Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

SELF-AWARENESS : Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. (Lin Yutang: Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher, and inventor, 1895-1976)

SELF-AWARENESS : Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. (St. Bartholomew: Patron saint of farmers, leather workers, and other craftsmen)

SELF-AWARENESS : Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

SELF-AWARENESS : The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-AWARENESS : The body manifests what the mind harbors. (Jerry Augustine: U.S. professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues, Born 1952)

SELF-AWARENESS : The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

SELF-AWARENESS : The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim: U.S. poet and novelist, 1882-1932)

SELF-AWARENESS : The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

SELF-AWARENESS : The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SELF-AWARENESS : The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SELF-AWARENESS : The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-AWARENESS : The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-AWARENESS : There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. (Amanda Gorman: U.S. author, poet, activist, Born 1998)

SELF-AWARENESS : There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SELF-AWARENESS : There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

SELF-AWARENESS : There is nothing noble in being superior to some other people. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-AWARENESS : To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-AWARENESS : To know everything about oneself one must know all about others. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

SELF-AWARENESS : To know when one’s self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people. (Walter Pater: English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, 1839-1894)

SELF-AWARENESS : To thine own self be true / Thou canst not then be false to any man. (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-AWARENESS : 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-AWARENESS : We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

SELF-AWARENESS : We imagine that others’ sufferings are one thing and our life another. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

SELF-AWARENESS : What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-AWARENESS : What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies . . . the real man. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

SELF-AWARENESS : When I am feeling self-critical and comparing myself to others, I try to remind myself that everyone navigates through different obstacles and grows on her/his own timeline. (Sunia Khan: US. medical student at the university of California, Irvine)

SELF-AWARENESS : When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

SELF-AWARENESS : When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. (Rachel N. Remen: U.S. author and teacher of alternative medicine in the form of integrative medicine, Born 1938)

SELF-AWARENESS : When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)

SELF-AWARENESS : Who looks inside, awakes. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-AWARENESS : Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-AWARENESS : With the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live. (R. A. Salvatore: U.S. author, Born 1959)

SELF-AWARENESS : You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. (Rwandan proverb: )

SELF-AWARENESS : You cannot teach a man anything: you can only help him find it within himself. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

SELF-AWARENESS : You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

SELF-AWARENESS : You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. (Serena Williams: U.S. professional award-winning tennis player, Born 1981)

SELF-AWARENESS : You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

SELF-COMPLACENCY : Self-complacency is fatal to progress. (Margaret E. Sangster: U.S. author, 1838-1912)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein: U.S. actor, playwright, and screenwriter, Born 1952)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

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 : Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Believe you can and you’re halfway there. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

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 : Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. (Charles J. Clark: Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada, Born 1939)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)

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 : Failure is sometimes a matter of not trying rather than not succeeding. (Sarah Blakely: U.S. billionaire businesswoman, Born 1971)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself. (Beyonce: U.S. award-winning songwriter, actress, and businesswoman, Born 1981)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. (Rollo May: U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. (African Proverb: )

SELF-CONFIDENCE : It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. (W.C. Fields: U.S. comedian, actor, juggler, and writer, 1880-1946)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Perhaps I am stronger than I think. (Thomas Merton: U.S. theologian, social activist, and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. (Elizabeth Gilbert: U.S. journalist and author, best known for her 2006 memoir, 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Born 1969)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : The greater damage for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot: British journalist and businessman, 1826-1877)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others (Hasidic Proverb: )

SELF-CONFIDENCE : The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. (Hasidic Proverb: )

SELF-CONFIDENCE : They are able because they think they are able. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-CONFIDENCE : They can because they think they can. (Virgil: Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period, 70 - 19 B.C.E.)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Things are strongest where they're broken. (Louise Penny: Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec, Born 1958)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. (Benjamin Spock: U.S. pediatrician and author, 1903-1998)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! (George M. Adams: U.S. newspaper columnist and founder of the 'George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service,' 1878-1962)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts. (Larry Ellison: U.S. business magnate and investor who co-founded and served as the C.E.O. of the Oracle Corporation, Born 1944)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : You can go as far as your mind lets you. Remember that what you believe you can achieve. (Mary K. Ash: U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. (Serena Williams: U.S. professional award-winning tennis player, Born 1981)

SELF-CONFIDENCE : You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (A. A. Milne: English writer, best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry, 1882-1956)

SELF-CONQUEST : Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

SELF-CONTROL : A closed mouth catches no flies. (Italian Proverb: )

SELF-CONTROL : Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. (William Shenstone: English poet, 1714-1763)

SELF-CONTROL : He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

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 who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

SELF-CONTROL : I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-CONTROL : It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-CONTROL : Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

SELF-CONTROL : No man is free who is not master of himself. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-CONTROL : Self-control involves a minimum information given with maximum politeness. (Jacqueline K. Onassis: First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and who was regarded as an international icon of style and culture, 1929-1994)

SELF-CONTROL : Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

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 : Those who anger you conquer you. (Epictetus: Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery and then lived in Rome until his banishment, Died 135 A.D.)

SELF-CONTROL : What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-CONTROL : When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where the power is. (Don M. Ruiz: Mexican author of Toltec spiritualist and neo-shamanistic texts, Born 1952)

SELF-DAMAGE : A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

SELF-DAMAGE : Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

SELF-DAMAGE : He that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green which otherwise would heal and do well. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

SELF-DAMAGE : Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-DAMAGE : If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

SELF-DAMAGE : If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. (Shirley M. Hufstedler: U.S. attorney and judge who served as the first U.S. Secretary of Education, 1925-2016)

SELF-DAMAGE : Malice hurts itself most. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-DAMAGE : Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-DECEIT : No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. (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)

SELF-DECEPTION : Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. (William G. Wilson: U.S. businessman who conceived and co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, with fellow co-founder Bob Smith, 1895-1971)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Be who you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. (Arthur Ashe: U.S. professional tennis player who was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open, Born 1943)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Either you run the day or the day runs you. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Every man is the architect of his own fortune. (Appius C. Caecus: Roman writer and statesman who was responsible for the building of Rome's first road and first aqueduct, 340 B.C.E.—273 B.C.E.)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

SELF-DETERMINATION : I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. (Langston Hughes: U.S. poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, 1902-1967)

SELF-DETERMINATION : If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm. (Frank Lane: U.S. executive in professional baseball, 1896-1981)

SELF-DETERMINATION : It is how you set the sails that determines your direction in life, not just the winds' forces. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. (Charles R. Swindoll: U.S. evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher, Born1934)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Man is free the instant he wants to be. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

SELF-DETERMINATION : Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-DETERMINATION : One cannot get through life without pain . . . . What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)

SELF-DETERMINATION : The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

SELF-DETERMINATION : The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

SELF-DETERMINATION : To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

SELF-DETERMINATION : What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-DETERMINATION : When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

SELF-DETERMINATION : You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. (Richard Branson: British business magnate and commercial astronaut, Born 1950)

SELF-DETERMINATION : You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)

SELF-DISCOVERY : All serious daring starts from within. (Eudora Welty: U.S. short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South, 1909-2001)

SELF-DISCOVERY : An unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

SELF-DISCOVERY : Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. (Carol Pearson: U.S. author and educator, Born 1944)

SELF-DISCOVERY : If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself; if you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

SELF-DISCOVERY : It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (Edmund Hillary: New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, 1919-2008)

SELF-DISCOVERY : Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. (Bernice J. Reagon: U.S. singer, composer, scholar, and social activist who realized the power of collective singing to unify disparate groups, Born 1942)

SELF-DISCOVERY : Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. (St. Catherine of Siena: Italian laywoman, mystic, and theologian, canonized as a saint who is revered as one of the most influential women in the history of the Catholic Church, 1347-1380)

SELF-DISCOVERY : No one knows what he can to do until he tries. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

SELF-DISCOVERY : Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. (Carol Burnett: U.S. award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer. and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1933)

SELF-DISCOVERY : The only journey is the one within. (Rainier M. Rilke: Austrian poet and novelist, 1875-1926)

SELF-ESTEEM : Do not depend on other people as a source of your happiness or for approval. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943)

SELF-ESTEEM : Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

SELF-EXAMINATION : There is no coming to consciousness without pain. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-EXPRESSION : Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday. (Robert Newell: U.S. pioneer, fur trapper, and politician, 1807-1869)

SELF-EXPRESSION : Think for yourself and let others enjoy the right to do the same. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

SELF-FORGIVENESS : A man must learn to forgive himself. (Arthur D. Ficke: U.S. poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art, 1883-1945)

SELF-FORGIVENESS : Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. (Harriet U. Nelson: U.S. actress, best known for best known for her role on the sitcom 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet', 1909-1994)

SELF-FORGIVENESS : How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

SELF-FULFILLMENT : What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. (Pauline R. Clance: Emerita of Psychology at Georgia State University)

SELF-IDENTITY : A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

SELF-IDENTITY : A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

SELF-IDENTITY : Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein: U.S. actor, playwright, and screenwriter, Born 1952)

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. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)

SELF-IDENTITY : Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

SELF-IDENTITY : He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of man. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

SELF-IDENTITY : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-IDENTITY : I think therefore I am. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

SELF-IDENTITY : If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I? (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

SELF-IDENTITY : If we opened up people, we would find a landscape. (Agnes Varda: Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist, 1928-2019))

SELF-IDENTITY : If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. (Rollo May: U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994)

SELF-IDENTITY : Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

SELF-IDENTITY : It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. (W.C. Fields: U.S. comedian, actor, juggler, and writer, 1880-1946)

SELF-IDENTITY : 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-IDENTITY : Just be yourself, because an original is worth more than a copy. (Suzy Kassem: U.S. writer, poet, philosopher, and multi-faceted artist of Egyptian origin, Born 1975)

SELF-IDENTITY : Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. (Robert N. Bellah: U.S. sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, 1927-2013)

SELF-IDENTITY : Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

SELF-IDENTITY : Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. . . . People will take you very much at your own reckoning. (Anthony Trollope: English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)

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 : Nobody is ever too far gone to recover; it's just a matter of finding the right people to bring you back to a better version of who you want to be. (Lauren Justice: U.S. local Case Manager of City Net, a non-profit organization to help end homelessness)

SELF-IDENTITY : Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-IDENTITY : Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-IDENTITY : Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

SELF-IDENTITY : People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

SELF-IDENTITY : The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

SELF-IDENTITY : The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SELF-IDENTITY : The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. (Charles Schwab: U.S. investor, founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, Born 1937)

SELF-IDENTITY : The mind is everything. What we think, we become. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

SELF-IDENTITY : The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)

SELF-IDENTITY : The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-IDENTITY : The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. (Nicolas Boileau: French poet and critic, 1636-1711)

SELF-IDENTITY : There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

SELF-IDENTITY : To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SELF-IDENTITY : True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)

SELF-IDENTITY : We are what we believe we are. (Benjamin N. Cardozo: U.S. lawyer and jurist, 1870-1938)

SELF-IDENTITY : We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (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 : We work to become, not to acquire. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

SELF-IDENTITY : What a person thinks is what he becomes. (Ancient Sanskrit text) (Maitri-Upanishad: )

SELF-IDENTITY : 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-IDENTITY : What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39))

SELF-IDENTITY : When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

SELF-IDENTITY : Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? (Scott Turow: author and lawyer, Born 1949)

SELF-IDENTITY : Who looks inside, awakes. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-IDENTITY : You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. (Oprah Winfrey: U.S. talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist, born 1954.)

SELF-IDENTITY : You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along. (Charles Frazier: U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)

SELF-IMAGE : He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

SELF-IMAGE : However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

SELF-IMAGE : I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception. (Kevin Gates: U.S. rapper, singer, and entrepreneur, Born 1986)

SELF-IMAGE : If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people (Virginia Woolf: English writer, considered to be a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, 1882-1941)

SELF-IMAGE : If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. (African Proverb: )

SELF-IMAGE : 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-IMAGE : Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. (Maxwell Maltz: U.S. cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics books, a forerunner of multiple self-help issues, 1889-1975)

SELF-IMAGE : Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. (Ellen DeGenerous: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958)

SELF-IMAGE : Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions. (Will Smith: U.S. actor, film producer, and rapper tho has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Aware, and four Grammy Awards, Born 1968)

SELF-IMAGE : The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world. (Arlene Raven: U.S. feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, and curator, 1944-2006)

SELF-IMAGE : The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

SELF-IMAGE : We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

SELF-IMAGE : Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SELF-IMAGE : You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (A. A. Milne: English writer, best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry, 1882-1956)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : A man's fortune must first be changed from within. (Chinese Proverb: )

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : Do one thing every day that scares you. (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-IMPROVEMENT : Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. (Shirley M. Hufstedler: U.S. attorney and judge who served as the first U.S. Secretary of Education, 1925-2016)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : Life is very interesting . . . . In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. (Drew Barrymore: U.S. actress, producer, director, and talk show host, Born 1975)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it. (Charles M. Sheldon: U.S. minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement,1857-1946)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself. (Wan Yangming: Prominent Chinese philosopher, statesman, general, and calligrapher during the Ming dynasty, 1472-1529)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : The only person you should strive to be better than is the person you were yesterday. (Anthony J. Robbins: U.S. entrepreneur and author of self-help books, Born 1960)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : There is nothing noble in being superior to some other people. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. (David Viscott: U.S. psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality, 1938-1996)

SELF-IMPROVEMENT : There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-INDULGENCE : Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. (Tom Robbins: U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1932)

SELF-INITIATIVE : Don't wait for your 'ship to come in,' and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. (Irene Kassoria: U.S. psychologist, 1925-2023)

SELF-INITIATIVE : If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-INITIATIVE : If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)

SELF-INITIATIVE : Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Maria Robinson: U.S. politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Born 1987)

SELF-INITIATIVE : One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

SELF-INITIATIVE : The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-INITIATIVE : The first step is the hardest. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-INITIATIVE : The gods help those who help themselves. (Greek Proverb: )

SELF-INITIATIVE : The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-INITIATIVE : They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol: U.S. leading figure in the 1960s Pop Art movement and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, 1928-1987)

SELF-INITIATIVE : You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)

SELF-INITIATIVE : You do not find the happy life. You make it (Camilla E. Kimball: U.S. award-winning author, 1894-1987)

SELF-INITIATIVE : You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

SELF-LOVE : He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SELF-MOTIVATION : A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943)

SELF-MOTIVATION : There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. (Amanda Gorman: U.S. author, poet, activist, Born 1998)

SELF-PERCEPTION : I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-PERCEPTION : In a friend you find a second self. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

SELF-PERCEPTION : 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-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 : Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-PITY : What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. (Oliver Wilson: English professional golfer, Born 1980)

SELF-REFLECTION : Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

SELF-REFLECTION : Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

SELF-RELIANCE : A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SELF-RELIANCE : An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

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 : Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631)

SELF-RELIANCE : Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RELIANCE : Clear your mind of ‘can’t.’ (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century)

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 : 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, 1792-1848)

SELF-RELIANCE : Everyone must row with the oars he has. (English proverb: )

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 : He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SELF-RELIANCE : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

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 : 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. (Unknown Source: )

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 : If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (African Proverb: )

SELF-RELIANCE : It is better to walk alone than in bad company. (Bolivian Proverb: )

SELF-RELIANCE : Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)

SELF-RELIANCE : Let me listen to me and not to them. (Gertrude Stein: U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946)

SELF-RELIANCE : Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

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 : Man is the artificer of his own happiness. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SELF-RELIANCE : Man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. (Unknown Source: )

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 : 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 : Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. (Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952)

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 : 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 : Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand. (Hippocrates: Greek physician who is often referred to as the 'Father of Medicine,' c. 460 B.C.E.—c. 370 B.C.E.)

SELF-RELIANCE : The champion makes his own luck. (Red Blaik: U.S. football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and U.S. Army officer, 1897-1989)

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 : The gods help them that help themselves. (Aesop Fable: )

SELF-RELIANCE : The gods help those who help themselves. (Greek Proverb: )

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 : The trouble with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

SELF-RELIANCE : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RELIANCE : There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. (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-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 : We're all in this together . . . alone. (Lily Tomlin: U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer, Born 1939)

SELF-RELIANCE : What are circumstances? I make circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

SELF-RELIANCE : What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies . . . the real man. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

SELF-RELIANCE : What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

SELF-RELIANCE : When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

SELF-RELIANCE : You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

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-RESONSIBILITY : The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we cannot rest. (Tom Lantos: U.S. human rights activist who served in the California legislature, 1928-2008)

SELF-RESPECT : He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of chainmail [armor] that none can pierce. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

SELF-RESPECT : Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

SELF-RESPECT : Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying . . . that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : All that happens to us—our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments—all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. (Jorge L. Borges: Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : As you make your bed you must lie in it. (English proverb: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : As you make your bed, you must lie in it. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. (Nikolai Gogol: Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin, 1809-1852)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. (: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Every man is the architect of his own fortune. (Appius C. Caecus: Roman writer and statesman who was responsible for the building of Rome's first road and first aqueduct, 340 B.C.E.—273 B.C.E.)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : God helps them that help themselves. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Happiness is an inside job. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Hate is a cancer, but each of us holds the cure. (John M. Green: U.S. technology instructor, poet, and short-story writer)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes. (Spanish Proverb: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty, (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : 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-RESPONSIBILITY : How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. (Parks Cousins: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : I believe we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies and the five stages of grief, 1926-2004)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : If it is to be, it is up to me. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : If one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Improvement begins with I. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : In dreams begins responsibility. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Insecurity and crisis are our default — states of our being. Carlos A. Sanchez, U.S. writer and professor of Philosophy. (Carlos A. Sanchez: U.S. Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Life isn't about finding oneself. Life is about creating oneself. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : 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-RESPONSIBILITY : Man is the artificer of his own happiness. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Mine is better than ours. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : None but ourselves can free our minds. (Bob Marley: Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, 1945-1981)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. (Carol Burnett: U.S. award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer. and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1933)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Barnett R. Brickner: U.S. Rabbi and founder of the Natl. Jewish Education Association, 1892-1958)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. (Fred A. Shero: Canadian ice hockey player and head coach, known for his team's winning two Stanley cups, 1925-1990)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. (Michael Altschuler: U.S. business man and motivational speaker)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : The buck stops here. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : 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-RESPONSIBILITY : There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. (Italian Proverb: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : Think for yourself and question authority. (Timothy Leary: U.S. psychologist and writer, 1920-1996)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for. (Marshall Rosenberg: U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication (NVC) process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until . . . we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : 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-RESPONSIBILITY : Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? (Thomas Wolfe: U.S. novelist of the early 20th century who wrote four lengthy novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas, 1900-1938))

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : You are the one who must choose your place. (James L. Allen: U.S. writer and novelist, 1849-1925)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : You do not find the happy life. You make it (Camilla E. Kimball: U.S. award-winning author, 1894-1987)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY : You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-SATISFACTION : He is well paid that is well satisfied. (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-SATISFACTION : The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

SELF-TRUST : Self-trust is the first secret of success. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

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 philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : As is our confidence, so is our capacity. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few / Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Happiness can exist only in acceptance. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Improvement begins with I. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Learn to . . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Man is his own worst enemy. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (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-UNDERSTANDING : None but yourself who are your greatest foe. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : One need not be a chamber to be haunted . . . . The brain has corridors surpassing material place. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us. (Mother Maribel: English artist and Roman Catholic nun, 1940-1970)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Start where you are, but don't stay there. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The greatest thing in the worlds to know how to belong to oneself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. (Joanna Field: British author and psychoanalyst, 1900-1998)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. (Vic Braden: U.S. tennis player, instructor and television broadcaster for the sport, 1929-2014)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. (Alice M. Walker: U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. (Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The soul is stronger than its surroundings. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : 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-UNDERSTANDING : The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan: Before exploring Outer Space, To find the Inner Man. (Yip Harburg: Popular song lyricist and librettist, 1896-1981)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : They can because they think they can. (Virgil: Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period, 70 - 19 B.C.E.)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Through others, we become ourselves. (Lev Vygotsky: Russian social psychologist, 1896-1934)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide. Those who look outwards dream but those who look inwards awake. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : We do not go to the theatre . . . to escape the pressures of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : We tend to get what we expect. (Norman V. Peale: U.S. minister and author known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, 1898-1993)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : What other people think about you is none of your business. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : When traveling, you learn who you are, and are not, when you're splashed up against a foreign environment. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : 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. (Unknown Source: )

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

SELF-UNDERSTANDING : Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SELF-WORTH : Failure is an event, never a person. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

SELF-WORTH : I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848)

SELF-WORTH : If someone values you only when you're about to walk out the door, you should definitely keep walking. (Lisa Duncan: U.S. author)

SELF-WORTH : Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

SELF-WORTH : 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-WORTH : Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

SELFISHNESS : More for me. Less for we. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

SELFISHNESS : No man is more cheated than the selfish man. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

SELFISHNESS : Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

SELFISHNESS : Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

SENSES : I have everything I need to be happy right between my ears. (Jane Jarvis: U.S. jazz pianist who was also known for her work as a composer, baseball stadium organist, and music industry executive, 1915-2010)

SENSES : Men trust their ears less than their eyes. (Herodotus: Greek historian who is known for having written the book "The Histories," and who is often referred to as "The Father of History,” 484—425 B.C.E.)

SENSES : Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses. (Unknown Source: )

SENSES : The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

SENSES : The eyes are the window of the soul. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

SENSES : The senses are bad witnesses; they are untrustworthy. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

SENSES : The softer you sing, the louder you're heard. (Donovan: Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer, Born 1946)

SENSES : The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears (Native American Proverb: )

SENSES : The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

SENSES : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

SENSITIVITY : Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842)

SENSITIVITY : I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. (Virginia Satir: U.S. psychotherapist and author, 1916-1988)

SENSITIVITY : It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SENSITIVITY : No one really understands the grief or joy of another. (Franz Schubert: Austrian composer who despite his short lifetime, left behind a vast collection, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, and a large body of piano and chamber music, 1797-1828)

SENSITIVITY : Sometimes you find people who have sun inside them. They have an internal being that shines so bright it feels like sun warming your soul. (Unknown Source: )

SENSITIVITY : The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

SENSITIVITY : The heart of a statesman should be in his head. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

SENSITIVITY : The longest journey you will make in your life is from your head to your heart. (Unknown Source: )

SENSITIVITY : The softer you sing, the louder you're heard. (Donovan: Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer, Born 1946)

SENSITIVITY : When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

SENSUALITY : Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

SEPARATION : I can generally bear separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

SEPARATION : I feel like a boat without either an anchor or a sail, for she was both to me. (Unknown Source: )

SEPARATION : Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

SEPARATION : Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SERMONS : Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter / Sermons and soda-water the day after. (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)

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 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 : I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. (Unknown Source: )

SERVICE : If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. (Lilla Watson: Australian visual artist, activist and academic working in the field of women's issues and Aboriginal epistemology, Born 1940)

SERVICE : Only a life lived in the service of others is worth living. (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)

SERVICE : Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

SERVICE : The benchmark of greatness is finding joy in loving and serving others. (Unknown Source: )

SERVICE : The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

SERVICE : The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

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)

SERVICE : We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. (Ben Sweetland: U.S. author, columnist, psychologist, and motivational speaker, 1888-1963)

SERVITUDE : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

SEX : A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure. (Karl Kraus: Austrian writer, journalist, and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1874-1936)

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: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

SEX : God created sex; priests created marriage. (Unknown Source: )

SEX : I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands. (Dudley Moore: English actor, comedian, musician, and composer, 1935-2002)

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 : Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. (Remy de Gourmont: French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic, 1858-1915)

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 : Sex is an emotion in motion. (Mae West: U.S. actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol, 1893-1980)

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 great amateur art. (David Cort: U.S. writer (journalist, columnist, editor, and author, 1904-1983)

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 : There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible. (Patrick J. O'Rourke: U.S. political satirist and journalist, Born 1947)

SHADOWS : Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

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 : Shadow owes its birth to light. (John Gay: English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)

SHADOWS : There is strong shadow where there is much light. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SHAKESPEARE : He [Shakespeare] was not of an age but for all time. (Ben Jonson: English playwright and poet, who is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, 1572-1637)

SHAKESPEARE : Shakespeare has had neither (an) equal nor second. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

SHAME : I count him lost, who is lost to shame. (Unknown Source: )

SHAME : I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. (Ralph Connor: Canadian novelist and church leader, 1860-1937)

SHAME : The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone. (Mian Kundera: Czech-born French writer, Born 1829)

SHAME : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one's country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis: Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

SHARING : Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SHARING : I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

SHARING : Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. (Swedish Proverb: )

SHARING : Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

SHARING : The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. (Pietro Metastasio: Italian poet and the most celebrated librettist for operas in Europe, 1698-1782)

SHARING : Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (Unknown Source: )

SHARING : To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

SHARING : Unshared joy is an unlighted candle. (Unknown Source: )

SHARING : When two languages bump into each other, they borrow stuff. We call it borrowing, except words don't need to be returned. Sharing is what makes the world go round. (Unknown Source: )

SHIPS : A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Hopper: U.S. computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral, 1906-1992)

SHOCK : Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

SHOPPING : When you feel ‘less than,’ you spend ‘more than.’ (Suze Orman: U.S. author, financial advisor, and television host, Born 1951)

SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS : If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. (Unknown Source: )

SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS : The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. (Florence Luscomb: U.S. women's suffrage activist and architect who was one of the first ten women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with her degrees in architecture, 1887-1985)

SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS : To be blind is bad, but it is worse to have eyes and not see. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

SHYNESS : Still waters run deep. (Latin Proverb: )

SIBLINGS : A brother is a friend given by nature. (Gabriel Legouve: French writer, 1764-1812)

SIBLINGS : Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. (Charles Schulz: U.S. cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, 1922-2000)

SIBLINGS : Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. (Vietnamese proverb: )

SIBLINGS : Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other—they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other. (Leonardo DiCaprio: U.S. actor and film director, Born 1974)

SICKNESS : How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

SICKNESS : Illness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot. (Dutch Proverb: )

SIDEWALKS : Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

SIGHT : Navajos have no word directly translatable for 'blindness;' it is called 'other-sightedness.' (Unknown Source: )

SIGHT : The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

SIGNALS : Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. (Jean-Martin Charcot: French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, 1825-1893)

SIGNALS : That sorrow that is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy that is followed by sorrow. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291)

SILENCE : A still tongue makes a wise head. (Barbara A. Kipler: U.S. lexicographer, linguist, ontologist, and part-time archaeologist, Born 1954)

SILENCE : All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

SILENCE : Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : Better silent than stupid. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - for I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - for I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then 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 : Go to where the silence is and say something. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. (William D. Howells: U.S. novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed ‘The Dean of American Letters,’ 1837-1920)

SILENCE : I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SILENCE : I decided it is better to scream . . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam: Russian Jewish writer and educator, 1899-1980)

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 : I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

SILENCE : If I were to remain silent, I would be guilty of complicity (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 : In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin L. 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)

SILENCE : It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

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 : Never miss a good chance to shut up. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

SILENCE : Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

SILENCE : One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

SILENCE : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin L. 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)

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 : Silence is argument carried on by other means. (Ernesto Che Guevara: Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967)

SILENCE : Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : Silence is compliance. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

SILENCE : Silence is one great art of conversation. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

SILENCE : Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

SILENCE : Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971)

SILENCE : Silence will save me from being wrong and foolish, but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971)

SILENCE : Speech is silver; silence is golden. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

SILENCE : The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934)

SILENCE : The silent dog is the first to bite. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : 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 : To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

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 : Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

SILENCE : 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 : What the devil needs is for good people to remain silent. (Unknown Source: )

SILENCE : Your silence gives consent. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

SILENCING : You have not converted a man because you have silenced him (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923)

SIMPLE-MINDEDNESS : If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970)

SIMPLICITY : Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

SIMPLICITY : Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. (C. W. Ceram: German journalist and editor, 1915-1972)

SIMPLICITY : Great complexity is easier to perceive at times than great simplicity. (Unknown Source: )

SIMPLICITY : If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (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)

SIMPLICITY : Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. (Steve Jobs: U.S. business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor, 1955-2011)

SIMPLICITY : Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

SIMPLICITY : Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. (Unknown Source: )

SIMPLICITY : Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, 18874-1965)

SIMPLICITY : Simplicity brings more happiness than complexity (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. (Unknown Source: )

SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. (Edsger Dijkstra: Dutch computer scientist, 1930-2002)

SIMPLICITY : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

SIMPLICITY : Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. (William Morris: British textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist, 1834-1896)

SIMPLICITY : Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963)

SIMPLICITY : That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

SIMPLICITY : The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

SIMPLICITY : The greatest wealth is to live content with little. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

SIMPLICITY : The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

SIMPLICITY : The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SIMPLICITY : The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. (William Gibbs: English businessman, 1790-1875)

SIN : All sins cast long shadows. (Unknown Source: )

SIN : If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

SIN : Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

SIN : Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (Unknown Source: )

SIN : Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

SIN : Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

SIN : Sin is geographical. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

SIN : So many laws argue so many sins. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

SIN : Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (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)

SIN : The seven social sins are: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice; Politics without principle. (Frederick L. Donaldson: British Christian socialist who served as Canon of Westminster Abbey, 1860-1953)

SIN : There’s no sin except for stupidity. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

SIN : Woman is at once apple and serpent. (Heinrich Heine: German poet, writer and literary critic whose radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities, 1797-1856)

SINGLEHOOD : Single bliss is better than marital blisters. (Unknown Source: )

SINNERS : Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

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 children's poet, 1830-1894)

SKEPTICISM : A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

SKEPTICISM : Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. (Unknown Source: )

SKEPTICISM : Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see. (Edgar A. Poe: U.S. writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, 1809-1849)

SKEPTICISM : Better be too credulous than too skeptical (Chinese Proverb: )

SKEPTICISM : Faith is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see -- / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

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 : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

SKEPTICISM : Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Robert K. Merton: U.S. sociologist and professor at Columbia University, 1910-2003)

SKEPTICISM : No amount of belief makes something a fact. (James Randi: Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, Born 1928)

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 : Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. (James Randi: Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, Born 1928)

SKEPTICISM : William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' 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)

SKILLFULNESS : A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

SKILLS : 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

SKILLS : It’s better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. (Apache Proverb: )

SKILLS : Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

SKILLS : The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

SKIN : Skin is the largest organ of the human body. (Sally Warwick: U.S. physical therapist, Born 1938)

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 rolls 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 : To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny (slander). (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

SLANDER : Trying to kill slander keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

SLANG : Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands—and goes to work. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

SLAUGHTERHOUSES : If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)

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 : Man, alone, can enslave man. (Simone Weil: French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909-1943)

SLAVERY : Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot! (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

SLAVERY : Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

SLAVERY : So we defend ourselves . . . and maintain slavery. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SLAVERY : The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master. (Unknown Source: )

SLAVERY : Where slavery is there, Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there, Slavery cannot be. (Charles Sumner: U.S. statesman and Senator who, as an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, was a leader of the anti-slavery forces, 1811-1874)

SLAVERY (U.S.A.) : 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 (U.S.A.) : What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

SLEEP : Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. (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)

SLEEP : Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. (William C. Dement: Professor of psychiatry, Born 1928)

SLEEP : Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SLEEP : For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. (Unknown Source: )

SLEEP : He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. (William D. Howells: U.S. novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed ‘The Dean of American Letters,’ 1837-1920)

SLEEP : It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

SLEEP : It is better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterwards. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

SLEEP : Night is the mother of thoughts. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625)

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 : Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926)

SLEEP : Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. (Thomas Dekker: U.S. film, television actor, and musician, Born 1993)

SLEEP : Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

SLEEP : Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals . . . a nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. (Vladimir Nabokov: Russian-born novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977)

SLEEP : That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. (Unknown Source: )

SLEEP : The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

SMILES : A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

SMILES : A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. (Andy Rooney: U.S. radio and television writer and broadcaster, 1919-2011)

SMILES : A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

SMILES : It takes only 17 muscles to smile, but 43 muscles to frown. (Joel Gluck: U.S. orthodontist)

SMILES : Smiles are contagious. Pass them around. (Rhea Zakich: U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

SMILES : The shortest distance between two people is a smile. (Victor Borge: Danish comedian and pianist, 1909-2000)

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)

SMILES : Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

SMILES : You're never fully dressed without a smile (Martin Chamin: U.S. lyricist, writer, performer, theater director, and creator of "Annie," the Broadway musical hit,1934-1919)

SNEER : A sneer is the weapon of the weak. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

SNORING : Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. (Katharine Whitehorn: British journalist, writer, and columnist. (Born 1928))

SOBRIETY : There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. (John Ciardi: U.S. poet, translator, and etymologist, 1916-1986)

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 : 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 MEDIA : Today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, and shallow comments over deep conversations. (Thomas L. Friedman: U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953)

SOCIAL REFORM : Social and cultural reform should precede political reform (Bhimrao R. Ambedkar: Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, and statesman who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India, 1891-1956)

SOCIALISM : Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)

SOCIALISM : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

SOCIALISM : Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard 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)

SOCIETIES : Our country is the world -- our countrymen are all mankind. (William L. Garrison: U.S. abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer, 1805-1879)

SOCIETY : A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

SOCIETY : A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

SOCIETY : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom. (Martin L. 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)

SOCIETY : A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

SOCIETY : Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. (Charles L. Lucas: U.S. World War II Gold Star Veteran)

SOCIETY : Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

SOCIETY : Ethics, decency, and morality are the real soldiers. (Kiran Bedi: Indian social activist, politician, and the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service, Born 1949)

SOCIETY : Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel: Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)

SOCIETY : Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. (Werner Finck: German comedian, actor, and author, 1902-1978)

SOCIETY : I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people. (Unknown Source: )

SOCIETY : If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken: U.S. senator, 1892-1984)

SOCIETY : It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

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 : It takes an entire village to raise a child. (African Proverb: )

SOCIETY : None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up. (Hillary Clinton: U.S. politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state, as a U.S. senator representing New York, and as the first lady of the U.S. to president Bill Clinton, Born, 1947)

SOCIETY : One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

SOCIETY : One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. (Richard Hofstadter: U.S. historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century who was the DeWitt Clinton Professor a U.S. History at Columbia University (1916-1970))

SOCIETY : Our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

SOCIETY : Pluralism: We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. (James (Jimmy) Carter: U.S. politician and humanitarian who served from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president of the United States and was also the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1924-2024)

SOCIETY : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. (Henry George: U.S. economist, journalist, and philosopher, 1839-1897)

SOCIETY : Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. (George Sand: French novelist, memoirist, and journalist, 1804-1876)

SOCIETY : Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

SOCIETY : Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. (Elizabeth C. Stanton: U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902)

SOCIETY : Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. (Unknown Source: )

SOCIETY : Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. (Victtori Alfieri: Italian dramatist and poet, considered the 'founder of Italian tragedy,' 1740-1803)

SOCIETY : Some are guilty, but all are responsible. (Abraham J. Heschel: Polish-born U.S. rabbi and professor, 1907-1972)

SOCIETY : Sometimes our institutions are like sand dunes in the desert—shaped more by influences than purposes. (John W. Gardner: U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

SOCIETY : Speech is civilization itself. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

SOCIETY : The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Unknown Source: )

SOCIETY : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Karl Popper: Austrian-born British philosopher, academic, social commentator, and one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, 1902-1994)

SOCIETY : The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. (William Beveridge: British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)

SOCIETY : The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power. (Wael Ghonim: Egyptian Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship, Born 1980)

SOCIETY : The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. (Louis de Bernieres: English novelist who in 1993 was selected as one of the '20 Best Young British Novelists,' Born 1954)

SOCIETY : The seven social sins are: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity; Worship without sacrifice; Politics without principle. (Frederick L. Donaldson: British Christian socialist who served as Canon of Westminster Abbey, 1860-1953)

SOCIETY : The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. (Thucydides: Athenian historian and military general, c. 460 B.C.E.—400 B.C.E.)

SOCIETY : The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SOCIETY : The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. (Unknown Source: )

SOCIETY : There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew. We just have to act like it. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

SOCIETY : There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone . . . has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. (George M. Adams: U.S. newspaper columnist and founder of the 'George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service,' 1878-1962)

SOCIETY : There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience, and recent scientific findings. (: )

SOCIETY : There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. (Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

SOCIETY : There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet, 1917-1967)

SOCIETY : They wanted to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds. (Paola S. Valdez: U.S. postgraduate researcher with the Brené Brown Education and Research Group promoting racial justice)

SOCIETY : Walls don't work. . . . Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. (James Stavridis: U.S. retired U.S. naval admiral and chair of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, Born 1955)

SOCIETY : Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. (Paul Fussell Jr.: U.S. cultural and literary historian, author, and professor, 1924-2012)

SOCIETY : We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

SOCIETY : We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can (and do) read worthwhile books. (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963))

SOCIETY : Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (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)

SOCIETY (U.S.A.) : A free society depends on free universities. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965)

SOCIOTROPY : I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, Born 1937)

SOLAR ENERGY : The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)

SOLIDARITY : If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. (Joseph Ettor: U.S. trade union organizer, 1885-1948)

SOLIDARITY : We don’t fight fire with fire. We drown it with water. (Rick, Warren: U.S. pastor at Saddleback Church, Orange County, California, Born 1954)

SOLIDARITY : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. (Unknown Source: )

SOLITUDE : I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848)

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 : 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 : It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SOLITUDE : One can acquire everything in solitude but character. (Marie-Henri Beyle: French writer, regarded as one of the foremost practitioners of realism, 1783-1842)

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 : Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

SOLITUDE : Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

SOLITUDE : Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. (Mary Sarton: U.S. poet, novelist and memoirist who is lauded by literary and feminist critics for her works addressing themes in gender, sexuality, and universality, 1912-1995)

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 : There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. (Kathleen Norris: U.S. award-winning novelist and columnist, 1880-1966)

SOLITUDE : Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

SOLUTIONS : An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place. (Johnnetta B. Cole: U.S. anthropologist and educator, Born 1936)

SOLUTIONS : Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness (Chinese Proverb: )

SOLUTIONS : Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

SOLUTIONS : Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution. (Stanley Arnold: U.S. business leader and consultant)

SOLUTIONS : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace? (Tony Angastiniotis: Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

SOLUTIONS : If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970)

SOLUTIONS : In the rubble of your trouble lies the seed of what you need. (Ida O. Donohue: U.S. poet, born 1928)

SOLUTIONS : It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

SOLUTIONS : It’s difficult to really fix what you aren’t being transparent about. (Barbara Whyte: U.S. Intelligence Committee's chief diversity and inclusion officer)

SOLUTIONS : Never cut what you can untie. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

SOLUTIONS : No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created 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)

SOLUTIONS : Pick a piece of the problem that you can help solve while trying to see how your piece fits into the broader social change puzzle. (Unknown Source: )

SOLUTIONS : There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SOLUTIONS : We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

SOLUTIONS : We will either find a way, or make one. (Unknown Source: )

SOLUTIONS : When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. (Unknown Source: )

SOLUTIONS : You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. (Eldredge Cleaver: U.S. writer, and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party, 1935-1998)

SONS : A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

SONS : My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. (English proverb: )

SOPHISTICATION : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

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 : 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 : It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. (Rose Kennedy: U.S. philanthropist, socialite, centenarian, and the mother of nine children, including President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, 1890-1995)

SORROW : Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. (Swedish Proverb: )

SORROW : Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry. (Bret Harte: U.S. short-story writer and poet, best known for his short fiction featuring miners and gamblers of the California Gold Rush, 1836-1902)

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 Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

SORROW : That sorrow that is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy that is followed by sorrow. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291)

SORROW : The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SORROW : The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SORROW : The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. (Unknown Source: )

SORROW : The depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future. (Joel Osteen: U.S. pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author, Born 1963)

SORROW : The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Unknown Source: )

SORROW : The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

SORROW : The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291)

SORROW : The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley: British psychiatrist. 1835-1918)

SORROW : The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. (Arthur C. Benson: English essayist, poet, author, academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1862—1925)

SORROW : There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

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, 1564-1616)

SORROW : While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

SOUL : Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. (John-Baptiste H. Lacordaire: French preacher, journalist, and activist, 1802-1861)

SOUL : Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul is impossible. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SOUL : Soul appears when we make room for it. (Thomas Moore: Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, 1779-1852)

SOUL : The soul is stronger than its surroundings. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

SOUL : The soul that has no established aim loses itself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SOUL : The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (John V. Chaney: U.S. poet, essayist, and librarian. 1848-11822)

SOUL : The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears (Native American Proverb: )

SOURCES : The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SPACE TRAVEL : Astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon (in 1969). (Arthur Goldberg: U.S. statesman, jurist of the U.S. Court, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1908-1990)

SPEAKING : Everyone can enhance a speech with a good "wardrobe." (Unknown Source: )

SPEAKING : Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. (Olson S. Card: U.S. writer known best for his science fiction works)

SPECULATION : Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. (Hal Clement: U.S. science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre, 1922-2003)

SPEECH : Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

SPEECH : I may not agree with 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, who is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, 1572-1637)

SPEECH : Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. (Noah Webster Jr.: U.S. lexicographer and English-language spelling reformer, 1758-1843)

SPEECH : Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

SPEECH : Speech is civilization itself. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

SPEECH : Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. (John A. Holmes: U.S. poet and literary critic, 1904-1962)

SPEECH : Speech is the index of the mind. (Unknown Source: )

SPEECH : The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

SPEECH : Tis his at last who says it best. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. 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)

SPEED : The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

SPENDING : You can't take it with you. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991)

SPIRITUALITY : A religious person is likely to do what he is told . . . not what is right . . . whereas a spiritual person will do what is right . . . no matter what he is told. (Unknown Source: )

SPIRITUALITY : All sorts of spiritual gifts come through deprivations, if they are accepted. (Janice Erskine Stuart: English Roman Catholic nun and educator, 1857-1914)

SPIRITUALITY : As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

SPIRITUALITY : Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

SPIRITUALITY : Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. (William N. Clark: U.S. Baptist theologian and professor, 1840-1912)

SPIRITUALITY : God enters by a private door into every individual. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SPIRITUALITY : Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. (Mary B. Eddy: U.S. writer and leader who established the Church of Christ Scientist, founded 'The Christian Science Monitor,' a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women's National Hall of Fame, 1821-1910)

SPIRITUALITY : I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experience. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

SPIRITUALITY : Man shall not live by bread alone. (Bible: Matthew 4:4: )

SPIRITUALITY : My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (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)

SPIRITUALITY : Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin L. 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)

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)

SPIRITUALITY : Spiritual truth is universal; as such, it is the property of no one religion. (Unknown Source: )

SPIRITUALITY : Spirituality is love in action. (Ding-Jo Currie: U.S. nationally and internationally recognized leader in higher education)

SPIRITUALITY : Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. (Starhawk: U.S. feminist and writer, known as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, Born 1951)

SPIRITUALITY : The Indian sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God’s. (Charles [Ohiyesa] Eastman: U.S. physician and the first Native American to be certified in western medicine, who was also He a writer, national lecturer, and reformer, 1858-1919)

SPIRITUALITY : The telling question of a person's life is one's relationship with the infinite. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

SPIRITUALITY : The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. (William H. Gass: U.S. writer and professor, Born 1924)

SPIRITUALITY : We cannot see injustice and say nothing, do nothing! Not if we are really to be authentically spiritual rather than simply pious actors in the game called ‘church.’ (Joan Chittister: U.S. Benedictine nun, theologian, author, speaker, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.)

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)

SPIRITUALITY : Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

SPONTANEITY : I think that one can have luck if one creates an atmosphere of spontaneity. (Federico Fellini: Italian film director and screenwriter, 1920-1993)

SPORTS : All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. (Duffy Daugherty: U.S. football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1915-1987)

SPORTS : International sport is war without shooting. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

SPORTS : 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)

SPORTS : Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion, or wealth. (Unknown Source: )

SPORTS : Sports help girls and women to perceive their bodies as instruments, not just ornaments. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

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 B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SPORTSMANSHIP : The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. (Ernie Banks: U.S. professional baseball player, 1931-2015)

SPRING : Sweet April showers, Do bring May flowers. (Thomas Tusser: English poet and farmer, 1524-1580)

SQUIRRELS : Like a small gray coffee pot / sits the squirrel. (Humbert Wolfe: Italian-born British poet, man of letters, and civil servant, 1885-1940)

STAGNATION : In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970)

STAGNATION : There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. (Norman Mailer: U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)

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 : I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. (Stephenie Meyer: U.S. novelist and film producer, Born 1973)

STARS : Stars cannot shine without darkness. (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)

START-UPS : The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. (Michael Harrington: U.S. democratic socialist, author, and political activist, 1928-1989)

STATISTICS : A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953)

STATISTICS : Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

STATISTICS : Statistics are no substitute for judgment. (Henry Clay: U.S. attorney, statesman, and orator, 1777-1852)

STATUARY : Madame de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

STATUS : A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. (Unknown Source: )

STATUS : A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

STATUS : Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

STEALING : Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. (Carsten Jensen: Danish author and political columnist., Born 1952)

STEREOTYPE : What one Christian does is his own responsibility; what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

stereotyping : The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. (Rex Stout: U.S. detective fiction writer, 1886-1975)

STOICISM : Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. (Claude A. Helvetius: French philosopher, freemason, and writer, 1715-1771)

STORIES : After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. (Philip Pullman: English writer who has been described as 'one of the 50 best British writers since 1945, Born 1946)

STORMS : Who made them, wind and storm? . . . . If heaven itself cannot storm for long / What matter, then, the storms of man? (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

STORY-TELLING : A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991)

STORY-TELLING : Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers. (A..S. Byatt: English scholar, literary critic, and novelist, 1936-2023)

STORY-WRITING : Maybe stories are just data with a soul. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)

STORYTELLING : Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

STRANGENESS : There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

STRANGERS : There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

STRANGERS : You are a part of me I do not yet know. (Valarie Kaur: U.S. activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader, Born 1981)

STRATEGIES : If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time people don't notice it. (Benito Mussolini: Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945)

STRATEGIES : When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby. (Unknown Source: )

STRENGTH : Elbow grease is the best polish. (Unknown Source: )

STRENGTH : 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 Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

STRENGTH : The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Unknown Source: )

STRENGTH : There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (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)

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 : You never want to try to strengthen a weakness if it weakens your strength. (Bob Torrance: Scottish soccer player, 1888-1917)

STRENGTHS : Life is very interesting . . . . In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. (Drew Barrymore: U.S. actress, producer, director, and talk show host, Born 1975)

STRENGTHS : Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside. (Russian Proverb: )

STRESS : Roots grow strongest when storms teach them to hold. (Unknown Source: )

STRESS : Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. (Bill Phillips: U.S. entrepreneur and author, Born 1964)

STRESS : Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. (Thomas A. Woodlock: U.S. editor of the 'Wall Street Journal' and a member of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 1866-1945)

STRESS-REDUCTION : Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. (Patch Adams: U.S. physician, comedian, activist, and author, Born 1945)

STRIKES : Show me the country that has no strikes, and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. (Samuel Gompers: British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader, key figure in U.S. labor history, and Founder of the American Federation of Labor, 1850-1924))

STRIVING : Better is the enemy of good. (Voltaire: )

STRIVING : I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down. (: )

STRIVING : Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving. (Pindar: Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes)

STRIVING : Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving (Paul Kalanathi: U.S. surgeon and writer, 1977-2015)

STRUGGLES : Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928)

STRUGGLES : If there's no struggle, there's no progress. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

STRUGGLES : Life is a series of relapses and recoveries. (George Ade: U.S. writer, 1866-1944)

STRUGGLES : One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

STRUGGLES : We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

STUBBORNNESS : Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. (Shakti Gawain: U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

STUBBORNNESS : He that never changes his opinions, and never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. (Tyron Edwards: U.S. theologian and Congregational minister, 1809-1894)

STUBBORNNESS : He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. (Anwar Sadat: Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt until his assassination, 1918-1981)

STUBBORNNESS : He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul. (Charles Baudelaire: French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe, 1827-1861)

STUBBORNNESS : 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)

STUBBORNNESS : In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. (Margaret Halsey: U.S. novelist, 1910-1997)

STUBBORNNESS : In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986)

STUBBORNNESS : It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

STUBBORNNESS : Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

STUBBORNNESS : So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us. (Mother Maribel: English artist and Roman Catholic nun, 1940-1970)

STUBBORNNESS : The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

STUBBORNNESS : The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

STUBBORNNESS : The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936)

STUBBORNNESS : There are none so blind as those who will not see. (English proverb: )

STUBBORNNESS : There are some people that you cannot change; you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone. (Margot Asquith: Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit, 1864-1945)

STUBBORNNESS : There's none so blind as they that won't see. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

STUBBORNNESS : Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. (Gerald G. May: U.S. psychiatrist and theologian, 1940-2005)

STUBBORNNESS : You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi: Indian politician who was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India and was named by 'Time' magazine among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century, 1917-1984))

STUDY : A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

STUDY : Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal. (Mary R. Beard: U.S. historian, author, and leader in both the labor and women's rights movements, 1876-1958)

STUPIDITY : Against stupidity the very gods / Themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)

STUPIDITY : I can instruct the ignorant; however, stupid people simply refuse to learn. (Steve Briscoe: U.S. architect, Born, 1954))

STUPIDITY : There’s no sin except for stupidity. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

STUPIDITY : We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

STYLE : Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. (Edna W. Chase: U.S. editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' magazine for 38 years, 1877-1957)

STYLE : Fashions change, but style is forever. (Unknown Source: )

STYLE : Fashions fade—style is eternal. (Yves Saint-Laurent: French business designer who is regarded as among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century, 1936-2008)

STYLE : Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963)

STYLE : Style is the dress of thoughts. (Lord Stanhope: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

STYLE : They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes. (Anthony Trollope: English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)

SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS : Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. (Ben Okri: Nigerian poet and novelist, Born 1959)

SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS : Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. (St. Bartholomew: Patron saint of farmers, leather workers, and other craftsmen)

SUBCONSCIOUSNESS : Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

SUBCONSCIOUSNESS : We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward; they're called dreams. (Jeremy Irons: English actor and activist, Born 1948)

SUBMISSION : We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. (Carl Schurz: German revolutionary who became a U.S. statesman, reformer, and served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1829-1906)

SUBMISSIVENESS : A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SUCCESS : A minute’s success pays the failure of years. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

SUCCESS : A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. (Gisela Richter: British-American classical archaeologist and art historian, 1882-1972)

SUCCESS : All glory comes from daring to begin. (Unknown Source: )

SUCCESS : Burn brightly without burning out. (Richard Biggs: U.S. television and stage actor, 1960-2004)

SUCCESS : Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. (Burt Lawlor: U.S. Audit manager)

SUCCESS : Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

SUCCESS : Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

SUCCESS : Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote: U.S. novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, 1924-1984)

SUCCESS : Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

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. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

SUCCESS : For success, attitude is as important as ability. (Unknown Source: )

SUCCESS : For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. (Unknown Source: )

SUCCESS : Formula for success: Under-promise and over-deliver. (Thomas Peters: U.S. slave who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary war and later became one of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the nation of Sierra Leone in West Africa, 1738-1792)

SUCCESS : I am not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity. (George Soros: Hungarian-American survivor of the Holocaust, a highly successful billionaire business investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

SUCCESS : I failed my way to success. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

SUCCESS : I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life. (G. W. Follin: U.S. well-known video game music composer, 1966-2024)

SUCCESS : I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

SUCCESS : If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. (William E. Hickson: British educational writer, 1803-1870)

SUCCESS : If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965)

SUCCESS : If you want to succeed, be like a duck: above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

SUCCESS : If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

SUCCESS : It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. (Joseph Rose: U.S. journalist and Episcopal priest, Born 1969)

SUCCESS : Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

SUCCESS : Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

SUCCESS : No guts, no glory! (Frederick C. Blesse: U.S. U.S. Air Force major general and flying ace. (1921-2012))

SUCCESS : One definition of success might be: refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger. (Yahia Lababidi: Egyptian-American poet, aphorist, and essayist, Born 1973)

SUCCESS : Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

SUCCESS : People fail forward to success. (Mary K. Ash: U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)

SUCCESS : Self-trust is the first secret of success. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SUCCESS : Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Archibald Mcindoe: New Zealand plastic surgeon, 1900-1960)

SUCCESS : Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

SUCCESS : Strive not to be a success, but rather to be a value. (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)

SUCCESS : Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

SUCCESS : Success comes before work only in the dictionary. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

SUCCESS : Success consists of getting up just one more than you fall. (Oliver Goldsmith: Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)

SUCCESS : Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SUCCESS : Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving. (Pindar: Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes)

SUCCESS : Success is a journey, not a destination. (Arthur Ashe: U.S. professional tennis player who was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open, Born 1943)

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 : Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

SUCCESS : Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. (Dottie Walters: U.S. leading motivational keynote speaker, lecturer, and author, 1925-2007)

SUCCESS : Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

SUCCESS : Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

SUCCESS : Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

SUCCESS : Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

SUCCESS : Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. (Robert Collier: U.S. author of self-help and metaphysical books in the 20th century, 1885-1950)

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 : Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

SUCCESS : Success leads many astray to their ruin. (Phaedrus: Ancient Athenian aristocrat and philosopher, Died 393 B.C.E.)

SUCCESS : Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SUCCESS : Take a simple idea and take it seriously. (Charles Munger: U.S. businessman, investor, and philanthropist who was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken critic of excessive executive pay, 1924-2023)

SUCCESS : The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. (Lee Iacocca: U.S. automobile executive who first developed several cards for the Ford Motor Co. and then later revived the Chrysler Corp. as its CEO, 1924-2019)

SUCCESS : The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

SUCCESS : The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, looking . . . neither to the right nor the left. (Unknown Source: )

SUCCESS : The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

SUCCESS : The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

SUCCESS : The most successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)

SUCCESS : The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

SUCCESS : The road to success is always under construction. (Lily Tomlin: U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer, Born 1939)

SUCCESS : The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Unknown Source: )

SUCCESS : The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

SUCCESS : The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

SUCCESS : The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. (Irving Berlin: Russian-born U.S. composer and songwriter who received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Tony Award. and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1888-1989)

SUCCESS : The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)

SUCCESS : There are few successful adults who were not first successful children (Unknown Source: )

SUCCESS : There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. (Colin L. Powell: U.S. diplomat and army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state, the first African-American to hold the office, 1937-2021)

SUCCESS : There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. (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)

SUCCESS : There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957)

SUCCESS : To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone (Reba McEntire: U.S. actress and country singer. Born 1955)

SUCCESS : To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

SUCCESS : True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. (Paul Sweeney: Scottish politician, Born 1989)

SUCCESS : Try not to become a man of success, rather a man of value. (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)

SUCCESS : Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered). (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.)

SUCCESS : Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

SUCCESS : Vitality show in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)

SUCCESS : With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

SUCCESS : You always pass failure on the way to success. (Mickey Rooney: U.S. actor, singer, and dancer, 1920-2014)

SUCCESSION : I succeed him; no one could replace him. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

SUCCINCTNESS : Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras: Ancient Greek philosopher whose teachings influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy, c. 570–c. 495 B.C.E.)

SUCCINCTNESS : Epigrams succeed where epics fail. (Persian Proverb: )

SUFFERING : A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

SUFFERING : A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

SUFFERING : All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. (Peter Singer: Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, Born 1946)

SUFFERING : Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

SUFFERING : Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

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 : It requires more courage to suffer than to die. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

SUFFERING : Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. (Edgar A. Poe: U.S. writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, 1809-1849)

SUFFERING : No bud, no lotus. The lotus is a most beautiful flower, but it will only grow in the mud. You must first have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering — in order to grow and gain wisdom. (Chinese Proverb: )

SUFFERING : No mud, no lotus (Thich Nhat Hanh: Vietnamese-American Buddhist spiritual leader and peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher who was known as the 'Father of Mindfulness' and was a major influence on western practices of Buddhism, 1926-2022)

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 : Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional. (Unknown Source: )

SUFFERING : Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

SUFFERING : Suffering is the origin of consciousness. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SUFFERING : Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. (Alexandra David-Neel: Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. 1868-1969)

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, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

SUFFERING : The root of suffering is attachment. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

SUFFERING : There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)

SUFFERING : Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering. (Parker J. Palmer: U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939)

SUFFERING : We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. (Marcel Proust: French novelist and essayist, 1871-1922)

SUFFERING : We imagine that others’ sufferings are one thing and our life another. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

SUFFERING : Wisdom comes alone through suffering. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

SUFFERING : You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender. (John M. Green: U.S. technology instructor, poet, and short-story writer)

SUFFERING : Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

SUFFICIENCY : Half a loaf is better than none. (English proverb: )

SUICIDE : I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life just as an officer resigns a commission. (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796)

SUICIDE : It is cowardice to commit suicide. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

SUICIDE : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. (Eric Sevareid: U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992)

SUICIDE : Suicide . . . is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets (Wilfrid Sheed: English-born American novelist and essayist, 1930-2011)

SUICIDE : There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

SUN : The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

SUNSETS : I think the sky blushes when the sun kisses her good night. (Ada Homa: Kurdish-American writer and university lecturer)

SUPERIORITY : Superiority is always detested. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

SUPERSTITION : If not religious, man will be superstitious. If he worships not the true God, he will have his idols. (Theodore Parker: U.S. minister of the Unitarian church, reformer, and abolitionist, whose words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., (1810-1860))

SUPERSTITION : Religion is not removed by removing superstition. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

SUPERSTITION : Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

SUPERSTITION : Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

SUPERSTITION : The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

SUPPORT : Be thou the first true merit to befriend / His praise is lost who stays till all commend. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

SUPPORT : Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. (Unknown Source: )

SUPPORT : If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. (Unknown Source: )

SUPPORT : It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. (Anne Bronte: English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family, 1820-1849)

SUPPORT : It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. (Unknown Source: )

SUPPORT : Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

SUPPORT : No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

SUPPORT : Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

SUPPORT : People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. (Nancy Farmer: U.S. author of children’s and young adults' books, who has received several book awards, Born, 1941)

SUPPORT : The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. (Unknown Source: )

SUPPORT : Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

SUPPORT : Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

SUPPORT : We are here to add what we can to life, not to what we can get from life. (William Osler: Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1849-1887)

SUPPORT : Wear your heart on your sleeve. (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)

SUPPORT : What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

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)

SURPRISE : The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)

SURVIVAL : Nothing in life is as exhilarating as to be shot at without results. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

SURVIVAL : What does not destroy me, makes me strong. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

SURVIVORS : A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

SUSPICION : The less we know the more we suspect. (H.W. Shaw: U.S. writer and humorist in the latter half of the 19th century, often compared to Mark Twain, 1818-1885)

SUSTAINABILITY : It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. (Amelia Earhart: U.S. aviation pioneer [the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean] and author, 1897-1937)

SUSTAINABILITY : We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. (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)

SUSTAINABILITY : We don’t inherit the earth, we borrow it from our children. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866)

SWEAT : Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. (Ray Kroc: U.S businessman who purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961, and is credited with having turned it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world, 1902-1984)

SWEETNESS : Honey catches more flies than vinegar. (Italian Proverb: )

SYMBOLS : Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

SYMBOLS : Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. (Joyce C. Oates: U.S. author of novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, Born 1938)

SYMPATHY : Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. (Gunnar Mortensen: U.S. television cameraman on the "Good Morning Show," 1982-2022)

SYMPHONIES : Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. (Gioacchino Rossini: Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)

SYMPHONY : A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. (Colin Wilson: English writer, philosopher and novelist, 1931-2013)

SYMPTOMS : Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. (Jean-Martin Charcot: French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, 1825-1893)

SYNERGY : Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. (Unknown Source: )

SYNERGY : There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. (Unknown Source: )

SYNERGY : We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness—in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone. (Unknown Source: )

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)