S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.”
“Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.”
“Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.”
“Striving can be more important than arriving.”
Source: Be of Good Cheer
“Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.”
“Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire to acquire followed by a throwaway mentality. True materialism could become part of a new ecological consciousness.”
“Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Striving for perfection is like taking a journey without a destination”
“Striving for perfection is not a realistic outcome. Striving for excellence will allow you to achieve a series of victories, but a level up attitude is required.”
“Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.”
“Striving for perfection is wasteful if excellence is good enough.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.”
“Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.”
“Striving for the impossible is not the same as toiling in vain.”
Source: The Battle for Gobwin Knob
“Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.”
Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star
“Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.”
Source: The Map of Time: A Novel
“Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“Striving to communicate with integrity, committing to seeing and being seen, is a slow art that requires vulnerability, brings dignity, and fosters healthy community.”
Source: 12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life
“Striving to Create Provisions for Tomorrow’s Organisations”
“Striving to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way.”
“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”
Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc
“Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.”
“Strizza, non timore o altro sentimento più nobile, strizza ‒ mi caco sotto. (Abbondantemente, a fiotti, e non è un buon segno.) La tragedia suscita compassione, la tremarella soltanto il riso.”
Source: Scuola di nudo
“Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.”
“Stroke his dick, more than you stroke his ego.”
Source: Must Eat Pussy: A Collection of Poetry and Prose
“Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.”
“Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.”
“Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.”
“Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Stroking Feyre's cold hand, Nesta spoke into the timeless, frozen room, 'You loved me when no one else would. You never stopped. Even when I didn't deserve it, you loved me, and fought for me, and...' Nesta looked at Feyre's face, Death a breath away from claiming it. She didn't stop the tears that ran down her cheeks as she squeezed Feyre's slender hand tighter. 'I love you, Feyre.'
She had never said the words aloud. To anyone.
'I love you,' Nesta whispered. 'I love you.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!”
“Strolling around. Eyes met and I forgot. He didn't.
Something deeper. Something stronger.
Hands touched and I forgot. He didn't.
He loved me.
Slowly and gradually, he gave me all that he felt. But he didn't realise giving could mean giving it away. Gave all of it until it faded.
They say energy in the universe remains constant.
Now I love him. He doesn't.”
“Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more.”
“Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Strom Thurmond the only segregationist anyone can name. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party had former Klansmen, members of a terrorist group that was lynching and murdering black people. That was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party.”
“Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.”
“Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.”
“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”
“Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.”
Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”
“Strong and cohesive families are better equipped to raise balanced, intelligent, educated children. Government programs that encourage single parent households commit nothing less than cultural malpractice.”
“Strong and content I travel the open road.”
“Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.”
Source: Modern dance
“Strong and healthy is the new sexy.”
“Strong and healthy, that's what these twins will be. They'll need to be. This country isn't for the weak or the fat.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?”
“Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.”
Source: Marius