Ads Quote by Samuel Johnson

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

— Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them…

— Samuel Johnson

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Because he does not strive, no one finds it possible to strive with him.”

— Lao Tzu

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he…

— Marquis de Sade

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

— Albert Schweitzer

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

— Pierre Corneille

“he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form…

— James Allen

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy…

— John Lancaster Spalding

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

— Spider Robinson

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— Dean Koontz