If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

It is not learning that makes people good, but practice.

Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

-- Jack Ma

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

-- Marcus Aurelius

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

-- Steve Jobs

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

-- Arianna Huffington