S.M. Stirling Quotes

By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.

Are you maximizing your minute or are you making the most of the moment?

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

No one should be afraid to be themselves.

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Quite frankly, Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest driver in the world

I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

Make your influence a good one. Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.

I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

Make a difference no matter what role you play

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

Motion is tranquility.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

Movement is tranquility.

I am not a driver, I am a racer.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.