“Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb
“It is not because life is difficult that we do not dare. Life is difficult because we do not dare.”
— Seneca
“All things at first appear difficult.”
— Chinese proverb
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
— Epictetus
“The broaden-and-build theory in positive psychology suggests that positive emotions broaden one’s awareness and encourage novel, exploratory thoughts and actions. Over time, this broadened behavioral repertoire builds useful skills and psychological resources.”
— Barbara Fredrickson
“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”
— Margaret Mead
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
— Francis Bacon
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live — with your self-respect alive and growing.”
— Maxwell Maltz