Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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