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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

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

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -Richard Bach.

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

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -Isak Dinesen.