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"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."--Arthur Schopenhauer
"Difficulties are things that show what men are."--Epictetus
"Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back."--Epictetus
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."--Epictetus
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."--Kenji Miyazawa
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."--Carl Jung
"There's a victory and defeat--the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats--which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."--Plato, Protagoras
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."--Mark Twain
"For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."--I Peter 2:20
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."--Art Linkletter
"If things go wrong, don't go with them."--Roger Babson
"Nothing in the world will take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than the unsuccessful person with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."--Calvin Coolidge
"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal--and soon they'll forget my number."--Edith Armstrong
"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."--Edgar Watson Howe
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."--Winston Churchill
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."--Anonymous
"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."--Sigmund Freud
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."--Ivy Baker Priest
"Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction."--Oliver Prince Smith
"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."--Edward Somers
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."--George S. Patton
"No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities."--William Boetcker
"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."--Plutarch
"Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it."--Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
"Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another."--Daisetz T. Suzuk
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."--Anonymous
"It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of pacific station that great characters are formed."--Abigail Adams
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."--Albert Camus
"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job."--Malcolm Forbes
"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown."--Thomas F. Woodlock
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."--Sallust
"He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea."--Anonymous
"Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle."--J. E. B. Stuart
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up."--Mark Twain
"Whatever it takes."--Anonymous
"Keep on keeping on."--Anonymous
"Stick with it."--Anonymous
"Endure till the end."--Bible
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."--Ayn Rand
"If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack."--Anonymous
"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."--G. K. Chesterton
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."--Abraham Lincoln
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."--Anonymous
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."--Vince Lombardi
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."--Thomas Edison
"My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes--most of which never happened."--Mark Twain
"Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."--Harper Lee
"Against change of fortune set a brave heart."--French proverb
"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."--Dan Rather
"Life is full of obstacle illusions."--Grant Frazier
"I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet."--Confucius
"Fear is the highest fence."--Dudley Nichols
"The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way."--Virgil
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."--Aesop
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself."--Axel Munthe
"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."--Publilius Syrus
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone."--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Later never exists."--Anonymous
"'I must do something' always solves more problems than 'Something must be done.'"--Anonymous
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."--Gandhi
"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."--Herodotus
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."--Victor Hugo
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."--Harry Truman
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."--Napoleon Hill
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."--Robert Schuller
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision."--Ayn Rand
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."--George Bernard Shaw
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."--Thomas Edison
"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."--Garth Henrichs
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."--Dale Carnegie
"The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise person grows it under his feet."--James Oppenheim
"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."--Frederic Chopin
"Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."--Anonymous
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."--Albert Einstein
"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."--Madame du Deffand
"I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it."--Thornton Wilder
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."--Sallust
"Almost everything comes from almost nothing."--Henri Frederic Amiel
"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."--Malcolm Forbes
"He who has a 'why' to live for can bear any 'how'."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."--F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."--Henry Ford
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."--Edward Gibbon
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."--Dale Carnegie
"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."--Anonymous
"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong."--Thomas Carlyle
"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."--Herbert Spencer
"When the rain falls it cannot be put back into the clouds."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come."--Janet E. Stuart
"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."--Liz Smith
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."--William Feather
"I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."--Benjamin Disraeli
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."--Jack Penn
"The gem cannot be polished without friction."--Chinese proverb
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."--Japanese proverb
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."--Hannah More
"Wherever an enlightened being lives, be it in a village or a forest, on a mountain or in a valley, it will be known as a holy place and, regardless of the environment, he or she will be at peace, and experience only joy."--Dhammapada: The Enlightened One, verses 98-99
"Live your life in happiness, even though those around you live their lives in hatred and wish to spread their antipathy to you. Be happiness itself."--Dhammapada: Happiness, verse 197
"Que sera, sera. (Whatever will be, will be.)"--French, aphorism
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."--Horace, 65 B.C. - 8 B.C.
"Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the gods to give you an enduring heart."--Meander, fragment
"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."--Aeschylus, fragment
"Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General."--Epictetus, Discourses
"Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering."--Aeschylus, Agamemnon
"Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit."--Aristotle, Virtues and Vices
"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."--Euripides, Heracles
"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."--Sophocles
"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."--Sophocles
"We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."--Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
"There's no educator better than necessity."--Xenophon
"Nothing great comes into being all at once."--Epictetus, Discourses
"If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you."--Menander, fragment
"Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all."--Pythagoras
"The fool learns by suffering."--Hesiod, Works and Days
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."--Euripides, frgament
"It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement."--Aristotle, Virtues and Vices
"The lot of man--to suffer and die."--Homer, The Odyssey
"Fortune is not on the side of the fainthearted."--Sophocles, Phaedra
"Remember, nothing succeeds without toil."--Sophocles, Electra
"Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you."--Isocrates, letter to Isocrates
"Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself."--Epictetus, Enchiridion
"By your own soul, learn to live. If some men thwart you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song. Dream your dream. Hope your hope and pray your prayer."--Pakenham Beatty
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