Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

Marianne Williamson

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

Meir Kahane

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Mason Cooley

The young are amazed when they suffer.

Mason Cooley

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

Oscar Wilde

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Michel de Montaigne

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Jim Bridenstine

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jacqueline Carey

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Herbert Hoover

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Evelyn Waugh

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Etty Hillesum

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Ernest Lawrence

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

Florence King

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Florence King

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Florence Nightingale

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Floyd Patterson

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

George Santayana

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

George W. Bush

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

George R. R. Martin

As we sin, so do we suffer

George R. R. Martin

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

Herbert Hoover

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

Henry Louis Gates

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.