"Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones."

-- Jacques Roumain

#Hard Times Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Tables Quotes

“I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.”
“I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.”
“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company
“Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”
“The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.”
“The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.”
“Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time”

Source : "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". Book by Tim Harford, 2011.
“For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.”

Source : Eleanor Roosevelt (2016). “The Moral Basis of Democracy”, p.11, Open Road Media

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