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“...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”

Persons Enough Character Seems Might Able Fall Opportunity Numbers Records Overcoming Encouragement Perseverance Obstacles Contribution Teamwork Collaboration Risen

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your growth & your ability to help others overcome theirs.”

Helping Opportunity Growth Challenges Ability Gratitude Overcoming Adversity Grateful Disappointment Helping Others Be Grateful Setback

Author:Hal Elrod

“Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.”

Firsts Opportunity Challenges Gratitude Overcoming Adversity Extraordinary

Author:Hal Elrod

“Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.”

Giving Opportunity Greatness Prove Overcoming Difficulty

Author:Meher Baba

“It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it. If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.”

Ifs Problem Spiritual Opportunity Given Grows Growth Greater Capacity Overcoming Difficulty Burden Solve Inner Strength Problem Solving Discouraged Inner Growth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.”

Ifs Knows May Opportunity Women Fields Fairs Overcoming Absolutes Likes Beast Being Thankful Darling

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.”

Way Giving Should Art Opportunity Known Clear Overcoming

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.”

Years Problem Opportunity Achievement Years Ago Overcoming Manhood

Book:Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

“As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.”

Want Problem Jobs Opportunity Goal President Economic Achieve Offers Overcoming Currents Determined Economic Problems I Am Determined

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.”

Giving Littles God Lying Opportunity Practice Virtue Produce Offers Prove Overcoming God Love Consideration Tenderness Good Work Our Love Obliged Reckoning Muster

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“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.”

“If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.”