Affliction Quote by Philip Sidney

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He…

— Angela of Foligno

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and…

— Walter Savage Landor

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

— William Ellery Channing

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many…

— Aristotle

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

— Gautama Buddha

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the…

— Plutarch

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

— Laozi

“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and…

— Aristotle

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz