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If you can't go over, you must go under.
-Yiddish Proverb
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When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.
-Proverb
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It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed ... The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-Abigail Adams
letter to her son John Quincy Adams
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams
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No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
-Sholom Aleichem
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
The Private Journal of Henri Frederic Amiel
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
-Richard Bach
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The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.
-Bavee
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
-Bhagavad Gita
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You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
-James G. Bilkey
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
-Lawrence Bixby
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The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
-Clarence Blasier
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
-Neils Bohr
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
-Phyllis Bottome
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People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
-Stuart Briscoe
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You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
-Les Brown
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
-Mark Caine
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-William Ellery Channing
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It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
-Charles The Bold
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...
-Robert Collier
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
-Barbara De Angelis
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Books about Difficulty
