Beverly Sills Quotes & Sayings

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

“A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.”

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.”

“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.”

“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”

“You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!”

“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”