Past Quote by Nikola Tesla

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness…

— John Steinbeck

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle…

— J. Reuben Clark

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

— St. Catherine of Siena

“...nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.”

— Thomas Mann

“Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward…

— Dick Francis

“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“well were those that were destined to do so from the very beginning, without any help at all, while all the others were lost…

— Franz Kafka

“(...) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness,…

— Thomas Mann

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world…

— Anonymous

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

— Dane Cook

“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