Quotes: S

Self-discipline is when you tell yourself to do something and you don’t talk back.
- W. K. Hope

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
- Plutarch

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.
- Josh Billings

Silence is the voice of the convinced. Loudness is the voice of those who want to convince themselves.
- Dagobert Runes

Silence isolates us from the crowds that love to pool their misery. An unhappy civilization is always gregarious.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
- Charles Spurgeon

Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
- George Bernard Shaw

Stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it.
- Stephen King

Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.
- Marva Collins

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can’t lose.
- Bill Gates

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
- Coach John Wooden

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Superstition is the dark side of wonder.
- Dean Koontz