V.E. Schwab Quotes

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

A sleeping cat is ever alert.

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah, " she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.

I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed.

Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing, " I say."Exactly.

There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.

I am Sunai, ” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.

My point, continued Rhy, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and I.

Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.

I am a man, not a movement, ” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.

Please tell me this is easier to take off than it was to put on.”Calla raised a brow. “You do not think Master Kell knows how?

Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights, ” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights, ” he murmured. “Just falling.

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.