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“There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.”

Men Firsts Cases Wise Talent Danger Circumstances Weak Difficulty Saved Firm Peculiar Mediocrity Quantum

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.”

Persons Hands Individual Energy Enjoy Common Brain Circumstances Ordinary Difficulty Appropriate Spheres Scope Moderates Possessing

Book:A System of Phrenology

Source: A System of Phrenology

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”

“Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as a physical attack or an assault on a child's body, the child may regard it as such, and experience it as a confirmation of his fears that grown-ups under certain circumstances can really hurt you.”

May Children Body Reality Certain Parent Hurt Danger Circumstances Overcoming Difficulty Regard Assault Confirmation Spanking

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent”

Circumstances Degrees Difficulty Response Determine Discontent

Book:Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

Source: Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

“So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.”

Ifs Giving Should Grace Mines Serious Circumstances Prove Resources Give Me Difficulty Pressure Trials Guidance No Fear Emergencies Perplexity

Author:Hudson Taylor

“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.”

Knows Way Mind Persons Doe Ends Done Given Objects Circumstances Beats Difficulty Sticks Excuse Accomplish

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.”

Lying Talent Circumstances Difficulty Fortunate Dormant

Author:Horace

“The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.”

Attitude Situation Source Circumstances Approach Difficulty Stress

Author:Joyce Meyer

“People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors, bosses, economic circumstances, and so forth. But in reality people are customarily their own biggest impediment to being as powerful as they would like.”

People Reality Powerful Environment Economic Circumstances Difficulty Boss Competitors Impediments

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.”

Believe Important Interest Minutes Circumstances Difficulty Important Things Minorities Sputnik

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.”

World Art Political Strong Circumstances Difficulty Spite Strong Women Abigail

Author:Barbara Harbach

“Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”

Made Opportunity Wish Circumstances Stones Difficulty Adversity Splendid Wish You Stepping Stones Old Soul

Author:H. P. Blavatsky