The
greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful
pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
Things work out best for the people who make the best out of how
things turn out.
Art
Linkletter
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the
courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to
say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is
by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.
Stephen
Covey
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir
Winston Churchill
Faith is the only known cure for fear.
Lena
Sadler
You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham
Lincoln
If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more
mistakes the next time.
Nadine
Stair
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home
runs.
Babe
Ruth
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest
hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing
does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and
sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and
love.
Leo
Buscaglia
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur
Schopenhauer
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
Great Spirit, we ask for strength and you give us difficulties,
which make us strong.
Native
American prayer
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African
Proverb
I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can
do it. If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price,
you can get it done.
Mike
Ditka
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of it? We must have perseverance
and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we
are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie
Curie
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
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little
voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary
Anne Radmacher
No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can
hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything other than what
you allow inside.
Wayne
Dyer
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Arab
Proverb
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your
strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel
a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti
Gawain
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
Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur
to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources
will be equal to the moment.
John
Robbins and Ann Mortifee
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great
days.
Lance
Armstrong (cancer survivor and multiple Tour de France champion)
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert
Schuller
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert
Einstein
When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for
us.
Helen
Keller
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting
otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore
Rubin
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, but most of them
never happened.
Mark
Twain
Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
William
Cullen Bryant
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred
A. Montapert
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo
da Vinci
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his or
her conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience
to life.
Norman
Cousins
Grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage
to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold
Neibuhr
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant
Frazier
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends
limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and
you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces,
faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to
be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
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
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which
he or she has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker
T. Washington
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare
wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street
sweeper who did his job well.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves
too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising
in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings,
and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would have
come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever
has.
Margaret
Mead
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid…for the Lord your
God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Deuteronomy
31:6
Just as a gem cannot be polished without friction, so a man or woman
cannot grow in greatness without trials.
Chinese
Proverb
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin.
Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others
think possible.
Howard
Schultz
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all.
Peter
Drucker
To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone.
David
Joseph Schwartz
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is
above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks
all things lawful for itself and all things possible.
Thomas
a Kempis
Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
Joan
of Arc
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step
to something better.
Wendell
Phillips
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also
what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston
Churchill
Disturbing the peace is a crime. When you rant and rave and stomp
and fret over life’s petty grievances, arrest yourself!
Carol
Ann Morrow
Simplify, simplify.
Henry
David Thoreau
I am confronted by insurmountable opportunity.
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