You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
— Maya Angelou
Genuine Overcoming Difficulty quotations
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.
Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them
What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise;
no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.
Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.
It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect.
Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose.
Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win.
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought.
True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!
The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.
When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty;
for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.
' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.