He who knows how to endure everything can risk everything.
—Luc de Clapiers, 1746
All things are difficult before they are easy.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
They can because they think they can.
—Virgil
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Where there is a will, there is a way.
—European proverb
Will is power.
—French proverb
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel, 1821
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
—Alfred Armand Montapert, 1970
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems.
—John W. Gardner, 1966
Men are generally idle and ready to satisfy themselves and intimidate the industry of others
by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
—Samuel Johnson, 1787
So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.
—Norton Juster, 1961
Things that are merely difficult never give lasting pleasure.
—Voltaire, 1759
Madam, if a thing is possible, consider it done; the impossible? that will be done.
—Charles Alexandre de Calonne, 1783
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do.
—Walter Bagehot, 1853
The only way of finding the limits of impossible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1972
Things are only impossible until they’re not.
—Hannah Louise Shearer, 1988
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From his Aeneid, written in 29-19 BC.
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—Luc de Clapiers, 1746
All things are difficult before they are easy.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
They can because they think they can.
—Virgil
14
Where there is a will, there is a way.
—European proverb
Will is power.
—French proverb
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel, 1821
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
—Alfred Armand Montapert, 1970
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems.
—John W. Gardner, 1966
Men are generally idle and ready to satisfy themselves and intimidate the industry of others
by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
—Samuel Johnson, 1787
So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.
—Norton Juster, 1961
Things that are merely difficult never give lasting pleasure.
—Voltaire, 1759
Madam, if a thing is possible, consider it done; the impossible? that will be done.
—Charles Alexandre de Calonne, 1783
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do.
—Walter Bagehot, 1853
The only way of finding the limits of impossible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1972
Things are only impossible until they’re not.
—Hannah Louise Shearer, 1988
14
From his Aeneid, written in 29-19 BC.
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