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“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

Inspirational Order Realizing Existence Activity Capacity Difficulty Adversity

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.”

“The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.”

Men Wells Politics Term Interesting Economy Issues Modern Security Activity Difficulty Credit Proportion Liberalism Banking Rivals Pledge Banking System Controllers

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.”

World Kind Country Matter Play Seems Together Games Belief Sports Poor Activity Difficulty Meetings Golf Endure Solve Tension Great Love Old World

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm”

“The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.”

Turns Influence Exercise Activity Intellectual Difficulty Increase Motive Commanders

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”

Feels Wells Play Games Levels Activity Skills Demand Tests Difficulty Video Escalating

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.”

Challenges Risk Activity Difficulty Zone Engaging Lounging

Author:Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

“Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.”

Humans Literature Possibility Activity Accounts Difficulty Complexity Precise Human Activity

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.”

“The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.”

Giving Humans Stills Political Race Activity Program Give Me Difficulty Suicide Educational Commit Human Race Reconcile Political Life

Author:J. William Fulbright

“If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.”

Ifs States Seems Might Individual Interest Groups Emotional Activity Resources Organization Difficulty Command Finance Contribution Resorts Compulsion

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION