“Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words”
Baruch Spinoza
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
Epictetus
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“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”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is difficulties that show what men are”
“Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel”
Bertrand Russell