Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That’s it. Don’t worry about making a living, don’t worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do and what you make count more than what you own.
—David McCullough (American Historian)
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French Moralist)
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
—German Proverb
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
—Bertolt Brecht (German Poet)
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
—Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher)
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
—Alfred A. Montapert (American Engineer, Philosopher)
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
—John Ciardi (American Poet)
It is no use trying to tug the glacier backwards.
—Tibetan Proverb
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
—Arthur Koestler (British Writer, Journalist)
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
—Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (English Politician)
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
—Francis Marion Crawford (Italian-born American Novelist)
One man lies in his work, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
The man who is kind and practices righteousness, who remains passive in the affairs of the world, who considers creatures of the world as his own self, he attains the immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
—Kabir (Indian Mystic)