Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Bloch

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Boethius

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Antonio Porchia

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Gary Chapman

This team accomplished much more than anyone, including me, expected. They overcame adversity and lots of youthfulness and did a fantastic job.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

John Gay

We missed some shots during critical times of the game, and we also made some turnovers at crucial times. We're now facing some adversity because we're in jeopardy of not making the state playoffs. But I think our girls can respond to the challenge.

Allen Klein

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Elbert Hubbard

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

John Ruskin

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Euripides

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Alex Pareene

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.