All the problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

William S. Halsey religious leader

 

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertoit Brecht, writer

 

 

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you're most tired. Get the big one done--it's downhill from then on.

Norman Vincent Peale, religious leader

 

 

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington, social reformer

 

 

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Alexander Graham bell, inventor

 

 

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out-- that's when I've really learned.

Carol Burnett, comedienne

 

 

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

Ken Rosenthal, entrepreneur, executive

 

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

English proverb

 

 

Give thyself an even greater challenge than the one you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

William Bennett, author

 

 

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epictetus