“It is one thing to act like a servant; it is quite another to be a servant.”—Richard J. Foster in Celebration of Discipline
            
“Servanthood means helping people look more like Christ, not more like us.”—Duane Elmer in Cross-Cultural Servanthood
            
“First, the Bible speaks much more about being a servant than it does about leadership. That should tell us something.”—Duane Elmer in Cross-Cultural Servanthood
            
“Position yourself as the servant of the organization.”—David Schroeder in Business In The Trenches
            
​“The world cannot do without servants, but see to it that your servant is freer in spirit than if he were not a servant.”—Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov
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“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
           
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”—Benjamin Franklin
            
“It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.”—Adam Grant

“Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.”—Werner Herzog
            
“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.”—Benjamin E. Mays
           
 “There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”—Dwight D. Eisenhower
            
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein
           
 “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”—Plato
           
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”—Vaclav Havel
           
"Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.”—Elie Wiesel
            
“Sin is perilous, prosperity in sin is tragedy.”—Reginald E.O. White in They Teach Us To Pray
            
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”― Jean Racine
            
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”― Fredrik Backman, Beartown
           
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”― William Butler Yeats

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
            
“One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.”― Beverly Donofrio
            
“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.”― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It
             
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”― Terri Garey
            
“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”― Criss Jami, Killosophy
            
“People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain.  You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.”― Eric Jerome Dickey, Genevieve
            
“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.”― Karl Jaspers, Tragedy is not enough
            
“Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey—searching for Jesus.”― W. Scott Lineberry
            
​“But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.”― Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary, Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
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