St. Vincent Quotes

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!

Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

You don't know me. Don't ever think you know me. The only things you know about me are the things you made me do, and that illustrates your character, not mine.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.