223 quotes found
“Every path has its puddle.”
“Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered and by the manner of his...”
“You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.”
“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.”
“When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.”
“The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.”
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.”
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.”
“When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and th...”
“Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?”
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
“You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
“There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.”
“Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.”
“When you can't solve the problem manage it.”
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.”
“Difficulties exist to be surmounted.”
“Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
