R.S. Thomas Quotes

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

The sun - my almighty physician.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

You can't go home again

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.