Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
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“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”
Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.”
“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”
Source: Motivation Lombardi Style
“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
Source: Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions
“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
Source: Mary Kay
“Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.”
“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.”
“If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”
“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.”
“When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.”
“When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.”
“Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.”
“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
Source: God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift