Quotes by Subject: Difficulties, Obstacles & Problems
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Difficulties exist to be surmounted. | |||
It is best to pretty much keep your trouble to yourself, cause half the people you tell em to won't give a damn, and the other half will be glad to hear you've got em. | |||
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. | |||
Do not tell your problems to people: eighty percent do not care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. | |||
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. | |||
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. | * | ||
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. | |||
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. | |||
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong | |||
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity. | |||
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. | |||
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. | |||
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. | |||
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. | |||
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. | |||
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. | |||
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. | |||
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. | |||
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. | |||
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. | |||
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. | |||
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. | |||
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. | * | ||
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. | |||
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. | |||
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. | |||
If you cannot solve it, is is not a problem - it's reality. | |||
Of course I'm an optimist. There's no point in being anything else. (during the Battle of Britain, 1942) | |||
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. | |||
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. | * | ||
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. | |||
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. | |||
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass. | |||
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. | |||
My life is one long obstacle course, with me being the cheif obstacle. | |||
Misfotune: The kind of fortune that never misses. | |||
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist see the opportunity in every difficulty. | |||
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle. | |||
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. | |||
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. | |||
Nothing very good or very bad last very long. | |||
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. | |||
Murphy?s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. | |||
A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes, whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. | |||
When you can't solve the problem, manage it. | |||
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. | |||
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. | |||
Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great. | |||
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things. | |||
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. | * | ||
Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. | |||
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. | |||
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. | |||
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. | |||
Of course we're winning. That is why our games are so tough. The other teams sense we are going to win, so they are beating us. | * | ||
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. | |||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
