Friedrich Nietzsche: What really raises ones indignation about suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Michelangelo: Ancora Imparo - I am still learning

Napoleon Bonaparte: A leader is a dealer in hope.

Henry Ward Beecher: Men's best successes come after their disappointments. 

Vince Lombardi: The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

W.C. Fields: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer: Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. 

George Washington: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence. 

Lord Bacon: The less people speak of their greatness,
the more we think of it.

Thomas Edison: I failed my way to success.

Samuel Smiles: We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

John Churton Collins: In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. 

The Purpose in Our Pain - Max Lucado

“Your faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God.” Philippians 2:17

When we face struggles, we often wonder, Why? Years from now, though, we may realize that it was those struggles that taught us something we could not have otherwise learned—that there was a purpose in our pain. God’s purpose is greater than your pain, and he has a greater purpose than your problems.