“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
~Malcolm Gladwell,

“His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.”
~H.G. Wells

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
~C.S. Lewis

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
~Abigail Adams

“Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.”
~ Confucius

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
~Thomas Calyle,

“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
~Dr. Haim Ginott

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
~ Mortimer Adler

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
~Eartha Kitt

“Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”
~Carl Jung

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
~Jack Welch

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ”
~Louisa May Alcott

“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain” ”
~Aristotle

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
~ Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.”
~ Ray LeBlond

“I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.”
~Chinese Proverbs

“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ”
~Novali German poet

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Douglas Adams

“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.”
~ Galileo Galilei

“Learning is the art of ignoring. ”
~Elias Canetti

“Our distrust is very expensive.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”
~ Mother Teresa

“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.”
~ H. L. Mencken

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
~Frank Crane

“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ”
~Cardinal De Retz

“Those who trust us educate us.”
~T.S. Eliot

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
~ Barbra Streisand

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
~Samuel Johnson

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
~George MacDonald

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
~Alfred Adler

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
~ Golda Meir

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
~Aesop

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
~Anton Chekhov

Ah.. This one is very true and funny.. funny times
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
~Helen Rowland

“Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.”
~Oliver Cromwell

“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
~Horace

“When mistrust comes in, love goes out.”
~Irish Sayings

“But you should first be clear about what success means to you, because as this quote below says,
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn’t a millionaire.Here’s what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn’t.”
~Jim Rohn

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”
~David Brinkley

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
~Earl Nightingale

” Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
~Albert Schweitzer

“It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
~ Aristotle

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.”
~Arie de Gues

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
~ Marie Currie

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
~ David Rockefelle

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
~ Norman R. Augustine

” I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright

“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.”
~Henry Drummond

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
~Thomas Alva Edison

“The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.”
~Zig Ziglar

After reading these success quotes, I hope you will have been clearer about your goals now.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
~Kahlil Gibran

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
~Wallace Stegner

Where there is love, there is pain.
~Spanish proverb

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
~Aesop

To be weak is miserable Doing or suffering, but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.
~Milton,John

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
~John Cleese

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~Marcel Proust

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
~Leo Tolstoy

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
~Victor Hugo

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
~Marcel Proust

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
~Eliot

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
~ Heraclitus

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
~ Hellen Keller

Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
~ Daniel Quinn, Adapted from the proverb on not feeding a fish but teaching how to catch the fish.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
~ Henry David Thoreau

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
~Pierre de Coubertin

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
~Stephen Covey

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~Leon Trotsky

A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. A defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
~ Sun Tzu,

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.
~Shelby Steele

If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter bees.
~ Thomas Szasz
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
~Golda Meir

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
~Ossie Davis

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
~ Nietzsche

Misfortunes one can endure. But to suffer for one’s own faults — ah! — there is the sting of life
~Oscar Wilde

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
~ Struggle quote by Arthur C. Clarke

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
~Franz Kafka
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
~ J. Willard Marriott

Here are some inspirational quotes that will save you from temptations if you tried, harder.

Don’t seek temptations:
“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ”
~Alyce Robertson

“The most important lesson I`ve learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. ”
~Penelope Cruz

“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friend… ”
~Boris Yeltsin

“What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.”
~ Steve Lacy

“What can you ever really know of other people`s souls – of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.”
~ C.S. Lewis on temptations

“The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.”
~Matthew Simpson

“The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.”
~John Wycliffe

“God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.”
~Walter Annenberg

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
~Oscar Wilde

“A good poor man is better than a good rich man because he has to resist more temptations. ”
~ R. W. Livingstone

“The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.”
~ Neil Anderson

“Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham

“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
~Robert Orben

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
~Lebanese Proverb

All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise. ~Anne Bronte

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
~Francis Bacon

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
~Norman Vincent Peale

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
~Marcus Aurelius

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
~John Beecher

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~Lao-Tzu

I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.
~Martin Luther King Jr

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~Helen Keller

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. ”

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers”

I have also filed this page under Motivational Speaker category. You see you don’t have to talk to speak!!!
And I would end this page by quoting Helen again, “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. “