Sinclair Lewis Quotes – Insightful Reflections from the Master Satirist
It is, I think, a universal truth that Americans have a lot to learn from other cultures.
The trouble with people is not that they don’t know, but that they know so much that ain’t so.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
Success comes to those who are willing to work for it, not just those who wait for it to come to them.
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The only limits in life are the ones you set for yourself.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
The only thing standing between you and your goals is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve them.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
The best revenge is massive success.
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The only journey is the one within.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.