Top 200 Stewart Stafford Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Separate text from context and all that remains is a con.”

— Stewart Stafford

2. “Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly. You could say that arrogance is false confidence and that the person displaying it is overcompensating for their inner inadequacies.”

— Stewart Stafford

3. “In the ashes of bitter tragedy, lie the seeds of astonishing rebirth.”

— Stewart Stafford

4. “There is a time for diplomacy and a time for the battering ram.”

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5. “Beware the self-righteous man, for he will destroy the world many times over before he sees his folly.”

— Stewart Stafford

6. “Every piece of art in the world was once a blank space that someone chose to fill with inspiration, imagination, fear, obsession, logic, love, or passion.”

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7. “I don’t buy into the notion of ‘privilege’ at all. To even attempt to brand and shame whole swathes of people based on their race or gender is, to me, obscene. It has icky echoes of totalitarian propaganda which seeks to direct the ire of a populace at certain sections of society deemed ‘unworthy.’ Playing the blame game gets us nowhere.”

— Stewart Stafford

8. “All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.”

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9. “Being a control freak is a weakness, not a strength. If you can’t allow others to shine, you’re exhibiting signs of narcissism and showing a lack of self-confidence. It is isolation through ego.”

— Stewart Stafford

10. “Love is a journey and a destination – long and excruciating on the way, unexpected and ecstatic if found.”

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11. “Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.”

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12. “Truth is only harsh if you’re unable to face it.”

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13. “The most overcrowded vessel is the one that sails on the golden sea of memories.”

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14. “You can tell a politician is lying when they claim they want fairness for all. They’re part of and represent an unfair elite who will never share their wealth, power or opportunities with the underclass.”

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15. “The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.”

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16. “Try to ensure that your acts of kindness don’t become open doors of exploitation to others.”

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17. “For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.”

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18. “Delusions are the rafters of reality.”

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19. “The day you stop getting excited about Christmas is the day you become officially old.”

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20. “Power swells the head and shatters the crown.”

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21. “Those we underestimate in life can often serve as guides to our lack of vision.”

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22. “Certainty is the calm before the storm.”

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23. “The eldest child is the golden one, the middle child invisible, and the youngest child is loud.”

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24. “When kindness is your compass, you will find guidance to the right path in this life and the next.”

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25. “I’m not a fan of April Fools’ Day. I can take a joke; I just don’t want to BE the joke.”

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26. “The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship.”

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27. “Kindness to animals is how humans demonstrate respect for the purity we have lost.”

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28. “Hypocritical paradoxes arise within an individual in proportion to their growing status or fame.”

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29. “Psychiatrists say unrealistic expectations lead to depression, but why else are we alive if not to dream? Every expectation is unrealistic until it is made a spectacular reality through inspiration, hard work, and persistence.”

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30. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.”

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31. “Honesty is the rarest commodity in the 21st century. No one looks to the political class or journalists for truth these days. The average Joe seems to spend most of their time peddling a ludicrous, flawless Facebook version of their lives. The peer pressure of political correctness forgoes truth for the sake of groupthink. It seems that comedians and writers represent the last bastion of candour out there today.”

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32. “The gears of narcissism propel the dictator and how tempting it is to shift them into overdrive while drunk on power. The genocidal hangover comes later.”

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33. “If anyone at my funeral says ‘it’s what he would have wanted’, I’ll kick the lid off my coffin and throttle them. Or, if I’ve been cremated, I’ll flip the lid off the urn and become a dust storm in their eyes. Only you know what you truly want. Anything else is presumption skewed through personal agendas.”

— Stewart Stafford

34. “Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles – improvisation within calculation.”

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35. “Open your eyes, breathe in the fresh dawn air and, with it, all the possibilities this new day may bring.”

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36. “As the last human lay dying in their shallow grave, they fashioned a crude grave marker from wood. It read: “Man – Terroriser of Fish and Great Destroyer of all he made, found or was gifted.” They then covered themselves with earth and quietly passed away. Seeing this, God left the Universe and took the Sun with him.”

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37. “History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.”

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38. “Politics – a lucrative game for the ludicrous.”

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39. “Ghosts are the manifestation of the longing of loss.”

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40. “Are those conspirators that you spy through your window or is it a mirror reflecting the chattering parasites in your mind?”

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41. “If you erased your past mistakes, you could purge your regrets with them, but you’d also wipe any lessons learned and any subsequent maturity gained. Don’t regret the minefields you stepped into, just try and learn not to step into the same one twice.”

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42. “In the West, we’ve gone from living in holier-than-thou societies to more-liberal-than-thou ones. Call it secular piety but both are just different forms of the same sanctimoniousness.”

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43. “Insecurity is the enemy of knowledge.”

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44. “Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water’s surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don’t know everything.”

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45. “Those who clap you on the back with one hand may clench envy’s mask behind theirs with the other.”

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46. “An assumption of flawlessness is the swiftest shortcut to disaster there is.”

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47. “Never forget those who go out of their way to help or harm you.”

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48. “The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.”

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49. “If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue makes you a tacit supporter of it.”

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50. “Education is the way out of the poverty trap. It shouldn’t be the poverty trap itself and make those trying to better themselves incur massive student debt.”

— Stewart Stafford