"After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?"
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"For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
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"Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them."
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"He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties."
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"I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them."
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"There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties."
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"Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer."
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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."
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"New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow."
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"Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties."
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"Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty."
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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!"
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"In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central."
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
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"Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him."
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"If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?"
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"Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity."
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"When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something."
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"War is an option of difficulties."
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"We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face."
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