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Difficulty Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
- For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their…
- It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be…
- For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
- Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
- The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If…
- The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established…
- The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the…
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