Inspirational Quote by Meng Tzu

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones…

— Mencius

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“And of these, a great part build so much on their ceremonies and petty traditions of men that they think one heaven is too…

— Erasmus

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his…

— John Quincy Adams

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

— Sophocles

“The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with…

— A.W. Tozer

“A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks…

— Homer

“For he alone, as the only all-gracious Son of an all-gracious Father, in accordance with the purpose of his Father's benevolence, has willingly put…

— Eusebius

“You have to get beyond pity, in order to feel from the very roots of your being. One can't make a new heaven and…

— Henry Miller

“But soon a better nature seems to come over him, and gentler words fall from his lips. He preaches patience to himself – he…

— James Malcolm Rymer