For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.
—Gail Sheehy (American Journalist)
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked-who is good? Not that men are ignorant-what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
—W. E. B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Activist)
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don’t ignore a solution just because it’s simple.
—Robert Ringer (American Entrepreneur)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)