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“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”
— Mark Twain
“In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'”
— Tom Stoppard
“They say miracles are past.”
— William Shakespeare
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
— William Shakespeare
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
— Buddha
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
— Jane Austen
“In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.”
— Marie Curie
Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.
“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
— Blaise Pascal
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
— Robert Frost
“Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”
— Edmund Burke
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
— Emily Dickinson
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
— Adam Smith
“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.”
— J. K. Rowling
“I personally think 3D Touch is a game changer. I find that my efficiency is way up with 3D touch because I can go through so many emails so quickly.”
— Tim Cook
“Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.”
— Linus Torvalds
“Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.”
— Bill Gates
“We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe