Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Smiles

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

Samuel Smiles

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

Samuel Smiles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Samuel Smiles

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

Samuel Smiles

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

Samuel Richardson

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Samuel Richardson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Butler

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Goldwyn

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Samuel Goldwyn

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Samuel Goldwyn

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salma Hayek

I'm saving my sick days for when I'm feeling better.

Salma Hayek

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

Salma Hayek

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Salma Hayek

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salman Rushdie

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Salman Rushdie

Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Ryan Reynolds

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

Rudolf Steiner

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

Whitney Houston

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

Wanda Sykes

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

W. H. Murray

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Joseph Joubert

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.