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12 Matches Found.
- Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
- Donald Douglas (1892-1981) American, Founder Douglas Aircraft Company, later McDonnell Douglas
It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of a man's hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith.
- William Butler Yeats
Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
- Sextus Propertius (50BC-16AD) Roman Poet
Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
- Orison Sweet Marden (1850-1924) American Editor and Speaker
It is the man who goes straight to his goal, obstacle or no obstacle, that commands our respect, gets our confidence, and gets to the front. He is the man who is sought in an emergency, not the man who is afraid of obstacles, who magnifies difficulties.
- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte
No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice.
- English proverb
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
- Chinese proverb
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Walt Disney (1901-1966) American Anamator and Film Maker
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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