In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
–James Howell
In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
–Dutch Proverb
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
–Mark Twain
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
–Joseph Addison
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
–Robert Half
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing
head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give
up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time,
but we will find a way to prevail.”
Jim Collins, from his book,
Good to Great
We only do well the things we like doing.
Colette (1873 – 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience is a teacher. But here’s what makes me burn. It’s always teaching me the things, I do not care to learn.
- Unknown
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
- Victoria Holt
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
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