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- We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
- Author Unknown
- We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
- Edward Dahlberg
- Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."
- Author Unknown
- If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
- Author Unknown
- Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.
- Author Unknown
- Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
- Author Unknown
- In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
- Hendrik W. Van Loon
- Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.
- Clement Stone
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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