Stronger than pain quotes (page 256) | Quotes of famous people

“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Source: Ford News, March 1926

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709).
Source: Letters of the Late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a Lady. Never Before Published

“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

Source: In the Mecca

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Reportedly in: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mistrust, Conspiracy, and Lack of Internet Ethics (1980) Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress. p. 32
Attributed

“All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"Physics and Reality" in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936)
Variant translation: "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." As it appears in the "Physics and Reality" section of the book "Out of My Later Years" by Albert Einstein (1950)
1930s

“I need you more than I need freedom.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Mercury's War

“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

“Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”

Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

Quoted in Scott MacLeod, "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975037,00.html, Time, March 9, 1992, p. 38
Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159