S Austin Quotes

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive.

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.

Learning should never stop for all age groups. We can empower millions to realize the opportunity to help shape a new society of creative 'mentorologists' in all areas of life.

There is no gardening without humility

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.

A secret talent or hobby Hmm I weirdly collect shot glasses.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

I think it's important to update my fans on what I'm doing and where I'm going next and when my next single is going to drop and my album.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I just think it's super amazing that the U.K. fans are so dedicated and loving. I love them, and being with them in person is an amazing feeling.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.