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Letter "D" » difficulties
«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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«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.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
| Keywords:
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«There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.»
«Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.»
«The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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«The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
advantages, bold, conquers, difficulties, diminishes, enterprise, former, hero, latter, preponderate, prudent
«The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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activities, awaken, capacities, difficulties, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, precisely
«To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.»
«The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Difficulty
| Keywords:
advance, As You, clearness, dawn, dawned, difficulties, increasing, light, meet, path, proceed, proceeding, resolve, resolving, shine, Shining Light, themselves
«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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