John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
“winners see the gain; losers see the pain.”
Shiv Khera (1961) Indian politician
Source: You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“There is no gain without struggle.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”
Stephen King book Pet Sematary
Source: Pet Sematary
“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 250–251 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
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Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.