Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Motivate Yourself in Difficulties

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
- Vince Lombardi

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
- Mike Gafka

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
- Edward W. Ziegler

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
- Charles de Gaulle

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ronald E. Osborn

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
- Ann Landers

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William E. Channing