Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ Growing up in wartorn country like South Sudan wasn't hard and unbearable, but I'm always thankful for the experiences I encountered; cos with them I had realized my full potential to walked in seek of change and make impact on lives of others. ”

- Luka J. Riek

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola