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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

My difficulties belong to me!

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.