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«Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
closing, door, late, so long, stare, stares, Too late
«I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.»
Author: Gillian Anderson
(Actress)
| About:
Lies,
Life,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
hurdle, hurdles, time and time again
«Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
misfortunes, purposes, subdued
«The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Adversity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
difficulty, gain, glory, greater, pilots, reputation, skillful, storming, storms, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, tempests, The Tempest
«In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Adversity,
Anger,
Overcoming,
Positive thinking,
Stress
| Keywords:
busy, plow, plowed, plowing, plows, Something Positive, stress
«He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Belief,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
fewest, motive power, sailor, steer
«Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.»
«Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome»
«Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Adversity,
Challenge,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
adversity, Challenges, develop, lifting, muscles, opposition, oppositions, overcoming, physical, such as, weights
«Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Overcoming
| Keywords:
acceptance, consequences, first step, misfortune, overcoming
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