SAPS Quotes

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. (Leo Buscaglia)
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. View quote
James Russell Lowell
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. View quote
A. J. Cronin
Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul. View quote
Robert Silverberg
There is the increasing tension required in the conduct of business which so saps a man's energies as to leave him little of either time or inclination for the cultivation of any other than the business faculty. A tendency to revolt against this is a well-marked feature of the social life of our time. Of what use is it, ask these slaves of the ledger, to spend the greater part of a lifetime in acquiring a competency only to find after it has been acquired that its acquisition has taken all the savour of enjoyment out of life? View quote
Keir Hardie
‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,' murmured Tommy. View quote
Agatha Christie
Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they've got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses. View quote
Agatha Christie
You ask of me then for what reason it was that Pythagoras abstained from eating of flesh. I for my part do much admire in what humor, with what soul or reason, the first man with his mouth touched slaughter, and reached to his lips the flesh of a dead animal, and having set before people courses of ghastly corpses and ghosts, could give those parts the names of meat and victuals, that but a little before lowed, cried, moved, and saw; how his sight could endure the blood of slaughtered, flayed, and mangled bodies; how his smell could bear their scent; and how the very nastiness happened not to offend the taste, while it chewed the sores of others, and participated of the saps and juices of deadly wounds. View quote
Plutarch
Fear is a great enemy of man. It is the enemy of his progress. It disturbs his peace and harmony. It sucks or saps his vitality and energy. It drains the nervous system of its reserve of energy. It produces weakness. (Swami Sivananda)
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. View quote
Oliver Burkeman
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. View quote
Pat Riley
For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other. View quote
Dante Alighieri
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
I was going to be the exception, the popular hero who could do as he pleased. But all those people were right. Babe and Boob-that was me all over. Now, though, I know that if I am to wind up sitting pretty on the world I've got to face the facts and admit I have been the sappiest of saps. All right, I admit it. I haven't any desire to kid myself. View quote
Babe Ruth
If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan. View quote
Cesar Chavez
Fear saps passion. View quote
Steven Pressfield
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing. View quote
Mark Twain
Many of us affect a tone of irony about gadgets, as if we lived always in realms above and dealt with trifles only during rare descents from sublime thoughts. The truth is that more and more of the important things in life turn on pinpoints. Our frustrations begin in trivialities - a telephone out of order, a car that will not start, a claim check whose number has been misread. The thing in cellophane that cannot be got at - plain to the sight but sealed like an egg - is the modern version of the torture of Tantalus. Catastrophes we will deal with like heroes, but the bottle top that defies us saps our morale, like the tiny arrows of the Lilliputians that maddened Gulliver and set his strength at naught. (Jacques Barzun)