Top 100 Sting Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Be yourself, no matter what they say.”

— Sting

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2. “If you love someone, set them free.”

— Sting

3. “Let your soul be your pilot.”

— Sting

4. “When the world is running down, you make the best of what’s still around.”

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5. “It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”

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6. “What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.”

— Sting

7. “One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.”

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8. “Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.”

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9. “Every day is a brand new day!”

— Sting

10. “I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.”

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11. “You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that’s great! If they don’t, that’s their problem.”

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12. “I realize that nothing’s as it seems.”

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13. “If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.”

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14. “Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.”

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15. “Don’t judge me, you could be me in another life.”

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16. “Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.”

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17. “Melancholy is no bad thing.”

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18. “At night a candle’s brighter than the sun.”

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19. “There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.”

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20. “How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?”

— Sting

21. “Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.”

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22. “Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.”

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23. “Like music, yoga is a journey – one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don’t see an end to it.”

— Sting

24. “Hell is full of high court judges.”

— Sting

25. “Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.”

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26. “Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.”

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27. “When there’s no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.”

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28. “Turn the clock to zero, honey, we’re starting up a brand new day.”

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29. “Without the breath of real freedom we’re getting nowhere fast.”

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30. “I went off to fight some battle that I’d invented inside me.”

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31. “I quite like mistakes. I think they’re human.”

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32. “Love is stronger than justice.”

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33. “I’ve spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it’s not good for my health.”

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34. “It’s a big enough umbrella, but it’s always me that ends up getting wet.”

— Sting

35. “Money’s only important when you don’t have any.”

— Sting

36. “I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I’m always a bit down. I’m not that way at all. I’m fun-loving.”

— Sting

37. “Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.”

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38. “Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.”

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39. “The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.”

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40. “They build machines they can’t control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.”

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41. “The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.”

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42. “Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.”

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43. “I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.”

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44. “I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time – a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that. It is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.”

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45. “Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success.”

— Sting

46. “I’m not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I’m a student.”

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47. “If you make your living writing, and you can’t write anything, it’s over. It’s very frightening.”

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48. “I’ve been the lowest low on the planet, I’ve been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.”

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49. “A lot of people approach risk as if it’s the enemy when it’s really fortune’s accomplice.”

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50. “I come from a family of losers, and I’ve rejected my family as something I don’t want to be like.”

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