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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."	Buddha
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."	Thomas Carlyle
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."	William Ellery Channing
"The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure."	Chilo
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."	Charles Caleb Colton
"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later."	Confucius
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."	Rene Descartes
"Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead."	Emmet Fox
"Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu"	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier."	Baltasar Gracian
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."	Stephen William Hawking
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."	Horace
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."	Daisaku Ikeda
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."	Carl Gustav Jung
"What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."	Nikos Kazantzakis
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."	John Maynard Keynes
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Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alexander Hamilton	Alfred A. Montapert
Anandabai Joshee	André Maurois	Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	Arthur Koestler	Baltasar Gracian
Benjamin Franklin	Buddha	B. J. Gupta
Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte
Chilo	Churton Collins	Confucius
Daisaku Ikeda	Dr. Joyce	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edmund Burke
Edward C. Banfield	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eli Khamarov
Emmet Fox	Epictetus	Epicurus
E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Frederick Douglass	General Charles De Gaulle
George Eliot	George Moore	George Stanley McGovern
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Peter Brougham	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Horace Mann	Isak Dinesen
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jeff Greenfield
Jim	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Maynard Keynes	John Norley
John Quincy Adams	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Heller
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran
Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger	Louis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Marquise du Deffand
Matthew Arnold	Michael Leuning	Miguel de Cervantes
Nadia Boulanger	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Nikos Kazantzakis	Og Mandino	Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis McGinley	Proverbs 17:17 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rene Descartes	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robyn Davidson
Roger Bannister	Roger John	Ryszard Kapuscinski
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren	Stephen William Hawking
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Walter Anderson	Walt(er) Elias Disney
Warren G. Bennis	William Hazlitt	William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing	Wystan Hugh Auden	(Arthur) Clive