Character Quote by George Orwell

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while…

— Dean Koontz

“As long as someone remains standing with a noble heart there will always be a way for good to triumph over evil.”

— Chris Colfer

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

— William Hazlitt

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

— Theodore Parker

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble.…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about…

— Immanuel Kant

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

— Laozi

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not…

— Joseph Addison

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from.…

— Oprah Winfrey