Assurance Quote by Michel de Montaigne

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

— Anonymous

Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as…

— Emile M. Cioran

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

— Magdeleine Sable

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient…

— Elizabeth Montagu

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

— Mary Astell

“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The…

— Agatha Christie

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

— Ernest Hemingway

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in…

— Georges Bernanos

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of…

— James Russell Lowell

Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part…

— Wilferd Peterson

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

— William Congreve