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“When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!”

Trying May Faces Can Do Failing Trouble Feet Plant Shoulders Conquer Lifts Vain Do The Best Face To Face Chins Dodge Braces

Author:Edgar Guest

“To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance.”

Causes Failing Trouble Acceptance Jew Wide Appeals Diagnosis Prescriptions Extermination

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.”

Ifs Done Taken Failing Trouble Succeed Success And Failure

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.”

World Enough Too Much Failing Trouble Adventure Civilized

Book:Wanderer's Circle

Source: Wanderer's Circle

“your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.”

People Needs Soul Failing Trouble Loneliness Elements Lonely Hearing Your Soul Unconscious Curls Triumphant Sociable

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.”

Thinking Made Remember Class Laughing Teacher Failing Trouble Entertainment Passing Passings Clown Passing It

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.”

Should Lord Failing Trouble One Thing Danger Scripture Foe

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

“Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.”

Ifs Might Guy Failing Trouble Serious Wounds Finding Yourself Occupation Collaboration Bad Guys

Author:Niall Ferguson

“Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.”

Should Reality Pain Grows Views Our Lives Failing Trouble Expectations Point Of View Bitterness

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.”

Problem Found Religious Failing Trouble Century Adore

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.”

Ifs Men Littles Too Much Failing Trouble Lays Spread Accomplish Impression Great Men Altars

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.”