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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

Opportunity Pessimist Every Difficulty Sees Optimist Every Opportunity

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

Opportunity Pessimist Every Difficulty Sees Optimist Every Opportunity

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Art Adversity Strength Man Fate Try Hurdles Trouble Difficulties Difficulty Alive Bitter Dares Give Rises Higher Troubles He Obstacle Obstacles Him Greater Discourage His Encounter Being After Acquired Dismay Skill Who Each

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes

Difficulty Resolve Feasible Divide Parts Many Each Necessary

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus

Reputation Difficulty More Greater Glory Pilots Storms Gain Skillful

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln

History Past Think Difficulty Our High Must Anew Case Rise New Occasion Piled Quiet Stormy Inadequate Act Present

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton

Government Great You Men First Control Difficulty Framing Must Lies Oblige Over Enable Governed Itself Place Which Next

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. St. Jerome

Long Difficulty Sought Friend Found Hardly Kept

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. Saint Augustine

Destruction Post First Difficulty Once Draw Drawn Out Bad Only Take Driven Head Nail Like Up Blow Done May Wood Being Hold After Cannot Which Little Company Second

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. Pope Paul VI

Life Prayer Man Heart Obedience Charity World Simplicity Word Will Difficulty Humility Mark Our Detachment Spirit Touching Towards Calls Without Self-Sacrifice Expects Modern Modern Man Holiness Poor Us Lowly

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. Jordan Peterson

The best way out of a difficulty is through it. Will Rogers

Best Difficulty Way Out Best Way Through

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths. Sonia Sotomayor

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Edgar Degas

Difficulty Everyone Talent Fifty Twenty-Five

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Eric Hoffer

Forcing Difficulty Rubbish Head Stuffed Empty Anything Really Hence

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. John F. Kennedy

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. J. P. Morgan

Problem Simple Thinking Difficulty Changing Solved Some No Problem Until Reduced Concrete Very Essential Form Element Specific Vague

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. John Updike

Hope Art Refreshed Field Difficulty Astonished Boring Some Dependable Where Predictability Predictable Deep Professional Professionalism Level Startled

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. M. Scott Peck

Behavior Responsibility Pain Consequences Difficulty Our Lies Accepting Avoid Desire

There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained. Sam Houston

Rights People Liberty Fly Men Duty Difficulty Danger Liberties Must Would Would-Be Maintained Like Texas March Defended

America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country. Shirley Chisholm

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