"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
_Aesop, Fables, "The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox Hunting," circa sixth century B.C.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
_Anonymous (Slogan in U.S. Military Academy gymnasium)
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
_Aristotle
"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
_Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; circa 340 B.C.
"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue,"
_Sir Francis Bacon
"Never complain and never explain."
_Benjamin Disraeli
"Little things affect little minds."
_Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
"It is difficulties that show what men are."
_Epictetus, Discourses, circa A.D. 100
"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, but in adversity it is the most difficult af all things."
_Epictetus, Fragment, circa A.D. 100
"Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes,"
_Victor Hugo, Les Misarebles, 1862
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
_Thomas Jefferson
"Great crises produce great men and great deeds of courage,"
_John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956
Sumber: Robert A. Fitton
7 komentar:
The JFK quote would have made a good tagline for an article about Chappaquidick.
Very wise words.
Bagus se x artikelnya,,, i like it hehehe
"It is difficulties that show what men are."
_Epictetus, Discourses, circa A.D. 100
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wuih,,berat-berat euy kata-katanya,,dan artinya dalam sekali pasti,,
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, but in adversity it is the most difficult af all things.
saya suka kutipan di atas,,hihi :)
salam kenal, kawan.. :)
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