Top 100 Sidney Sheldon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing lasts forever.”

— Sidney Sheldon

2. “The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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3. “Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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4. “Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!”

— Sidney Sheldon

5. “Being poor is only romantic in books.”

— Sidney Sheldon

6. “Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.”

— Sidney Sheldon

7. “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

— Sidney Sheldon

8. “Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”

— Sidney Sheldon

9. “Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

— Sidney Sheldon

10. “To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.”

— Sidney Sheldon

11. “Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

— Sidney Sheldon

12. “There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.”

— Sidney Sheldon

13. “To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.”

— Sidney Sheldon

14. “I’m a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”

— Sidney Sheldon

15. “Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.”

— Sidney Sheldon

16. “Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

— Sidney Sheldon

17. “If. A two-letter word for futility.”

— Sidney Sheldon

18. “To succeed, you need friends. To really succeed, you need enemies.”

— Sidney Sheldon

19. “I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.”

— Sidney Sheldon

20. “The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”

— Sidney Sheldon

21. “My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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22. “God will never throw anything at you that you can’t handle. Just take it one step at a time.”

— Sidney Sheldon

23. “I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power – their femininity, because men can’t do without it.”

— Sidney Sheldon

24. “I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.”

— Sidney Sheldon

25. “On trial... the most important factor is not innocence or guilt, but the impression of innocence or guilt. There’s no absolute truth. Just the interpretation of truth.”

— Sidney Sheldon

26. “Old money’s motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money’s motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.”

— Sidney Sheldon

27. “There is a theory that nothing in nature is ever lost – that every sound ever made, every word ever spoken, still exists somewhere in space and time and may one day be recalled.”

— Sidney Sheldon

28. “You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”

— Sidney Sheldon

29. “I’m sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.”

— Sidney Sheldon

30. “Writing novels is the most exciting.”

— Sidney Sheldon

31. “Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?”

— Sidney Sheldon

32. “God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.”

— Sidney Sheldon

33. “When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.”

— Sidney Sheldon

34. “Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it.”

— Sidney Sheldon

35. “I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.”

— Sidney Sheldon

36. “Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.”

— Sidney Sheldon

37. “The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.”

— Sidney Sheldon

38. “We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.”

— Sidney Sheldon

39. “She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.”

— Sidney Sheldon

40. “A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate...”

— Sidney Sheldon

41. “The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I’ve known in my life.”

— Sidney Sheldon

42. “When you’re trying to hide something,’ Paul Martin advised, ’always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you’re doing anything wrong.”

— Sidney Sheldon

43. “What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.”

— Sidney Sheldon

44. “Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.”

— Sidney Sheldon

45. “We’re brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There’s only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it’s snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We’re on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we’re all Jews.”

— Sidney Sheldon

46. “I was scared. Do you know what it’s like to hold someone else’s life in your hands? It’s like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?”

— Sidney Sheldon

47. “What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.”

— Sidney Sheldon

48. “Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.”

— Sidney Sheldon

49. “The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.”

— Sidney Sheldon

50. “Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”

— Sidney Sheldon