Beverly Sills (1929–2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. In her prime she was the only real rival to Joan Sutherland as the leading bel canto stylist.
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I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
—Beverly Sills
Topics: Doing Your Best
I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
—Beverly Sills
Topics: Cheerfulness, Happiness
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
—Beverly Sills
Topics: Endurance, Goals, Perseverance, Resolve, Graduation
Art is the signature of civilizations.
—Beverly Sills
Topics: Art, Artists, One liners, Arts, Civilization
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
—Beverly Sills
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity… I didn’t feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not—more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
—Beverly Sills
Topics: Living
There is a growing strength in women, but it’s in the forehead, not in the forearm.
—Beverly Sills
Topics: Women
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