Chance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a man is beaten, tormented and defeated…He is ready to learn something. —Emerson”

— Mark Divine

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts…

— Eric Hoffer

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of…

— Samuel Johnson

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described.…

— Aleister Crowley

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having…

— Marquis de Sade

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of…

— Anonymous

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo