Top 40 Steve Berry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Study the past if you would define the future. – CONFUCIUS.”

— Steve Berry

2. “A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.”

— Steve Berry

3. “It’s been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don’t learn, or can’t remember it, are doomed to repeat it.”

— Steve Berry

4. “He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.”

— Steve Berry

5. “Churchill said, Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

— Steve Berry

6. “If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them. I’d be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.”

— Steve Berry

7. “The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.”

— Steve Berry

8. “Words are the true weapons of mass destruction.”

— Steve Berry

9. “It’s the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you’ll always succeed.”

— Steve Berry

10. “Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It’s thinking that gets us into trouble.”

— Steve Berry

11. “But heroes, at times, had to be fools.”

— Steve Berry

12. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death.”

— Steve Berry

13. “I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see – the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.”

— Steve Berry

14. “Don’t argue with an idiot, he’ll only beat you with experience.”

— Steve Berry

15. “A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. “A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.”

— Steve Berry

16. “It is not necessary to believe in God to be a good person. In a way, the traditional notion of God is outdated. One can be spiritual, but not religious. It is not necessary to go to church and give money. For many, nature can be a church. Some of the best people in history did not believe in God, while some of the worst deeds were done in his name. – POPE FRANCIS I.”

— Steve Berry

17. “Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.”

— Steve Berry

18. “The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King Jr.”

— Steve Berry

19. “War doesn’t determine who’s right, only who’s left. And that had not been him.”

— Steve Berry

20. “The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. – John Kennedy.”

— Steve Berry

21. “I detest those who deceive me...”

— Steve Berry

22. “More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world.”

— Steve Berry

23. “Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.”

— Steve Berry

24. “Politics is a powerful drug.”

— Steve Berry

25. “Nearly every president had wanted a second term, despite the fact that history clearly taught the last four years would be nothing like the first. Either the president became overly aggressive, knowing he had nothing to lose, which alienated both supporters and detractors. Or he became cautious, placid, and docile, not wanting to do anything that might affect his legacy.”

— Steve Berry

26. “History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.”

— Steve Berry

27. “Something he learned long ago came to mind. Stir a person up and they could be made to think. Add in anger and they’ll screw up, sure as hell.”

— Steve Berry

28. “None of us should judge anyone, only ourselves. Life is not infinite. A set time defines us all – then, just as the bones in the ossuary showed, to dust we return.”

— Steve Berry

29. “All of us bear God’s image, all are worthy to be loved, all can grow in the spirit of God.”

— Steve Berry

30. “A man can accomplish much when the woman he loves supports him, even if she believes that what he does is foolishness.”

— Steve Berry

31. “Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.”

— Steve Berry

32. “Vaddern was trying hard to be the guy on the white horse, but I was’nt ready, just yet, to play the trust game.”

— Steve Berry

33. “How could anyone believe that a political system could provide all of the goods and services a people needed without cost? A daily gratification that would eliminate greed, selfishness, miserliness, and infidelity. A place where man could become noble, strong, and courageous. Crime, violence, and social ills would vanish. It’s absurd. The experiment called the Soviet Union only proved that none of that is possible.”

— Steve Berry

34. “He stuffed a hand into his back pocket, found his Beretta, and shot the problem in the chest.”

— Steve Berry

35. “I’ve always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?”

— Steve Berry

36. “Clever be the tongue that can speak without talking. – old saying.”

— Steve Berry

37. “If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that’s great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.”

— Steve Berry

38. “The True Cross, the Crown of Thorns, the Pillar of the Flogging, the Holy Sponge, the Holy Lance, the Nails, and the Holy Blood. The Arma Christi. Weapons of Christ. Instruments of passion.”

— Steve Berry

39. “It’s not so much the wars as the treaties that follow that truly alter the course of history. The Marshall Plan changed the world more expressly than World War II itself. Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction.”

— Steve Berry

40. “Dictators never accepted failure. They preferred to have their mistakes forgotten, overshadowed with spectacle.”

— Steve Berry

41. “We write because we have to, not because we want to.”

— Steve Berry

42. “Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.”

— Steve Berry

43. “Dreams are the Sorcerer’s tool.”

— Steve Berry

44. “Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.”

— Steve Berry

45. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary – James Madison.”

— Steve Berry

46. “It is true that the world has changed, but in many ways it remains the same as seventy years ago. Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated. The masses are gullible. – Schub.”

— Steve Berry

47. “Especially the call for a 28th Amendment. Alex had long been a proponent of changing the Constitution to ensure that every federal statute also applied equally to members of Congress. He’d hated how the legislative branch liked to exempt itself from laws imposed on everyone else, elevating Congress into some sort of ruling class.”

— Steve Berry

48. “Concentrate on one task at a time and devote your full attention to it. Trying to accomplish two things at once usually produced double mediocrity. Something well done was something done with dedication.”

— Steve Berry