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«The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.»
«The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.»
Author: James L. Christensen
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
adequate, adequate to, avoid, character, Christianity, difficulty, easy, meet, produce, purpose, tries
«The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.»
«The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Adversity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
difficulty, gain, glory, greater, pilots, reputation, skillful, storming, storms, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, tempests, The Tempest
«The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
added, difficulty, expectations, ill, illusions, ill will, One of Us, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
difficulty, high, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, piled, piles, pile up, piling, rise, The Pile
«The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.»
«The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later»
«The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Self-esteem,
Self-knowledge,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
cater, catered, catering, consider, difficulty, establishment, establishments, herd, herding, sacrificing
«The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Optimism,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
difficulty, optimist, pessimist, sees
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