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Showing posts with label difficulties. Show all posts
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Monday, July 25, 2016

Post #2126

Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.
—Sir Winston Churchill
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Post #2033

Difficulties are things that show what men are.
—Epictetus
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Monday, August 03, 2015

Post #1871

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
—Francis Quarles

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Post #1385

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
—Samuel Smiles
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Post #1370

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempest are the school of the sailorboy.
—Pietro Metastasio
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Post #1200

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
—Abigail Adams

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Post #1138

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
—William Ellery Channing

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Post #1082

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
—Thomas Jefferson

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Post #896

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
—Kenji Miyazawa
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Post #861

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are asked to deal with what is most difficult.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Post #809

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
—Samuel Johnson
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Post #555

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
—Euripides
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Post #479

The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.
—Leo Tolstoy
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Post #438

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
—John Steinbeck
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Post #404

The present will not long endure.
—Pindar
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Post #291

God enters by a private door into every individual.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Post #282

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
—Eckhart von Hochheim
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Post #206

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
—William Allen White
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Post #205

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on it's way to being solved.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Post #176

New roads; new ruts.
—G.K. Chesterton
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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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