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“The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later”
Confucius
“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
Niels Bohr
“Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.”
Chanakya
“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
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties”
Aesop
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health”
Carl Gustav Jung
