Ben Fountain Quotes


It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast. Spanish Proverb Difficulties 112
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Difficulties 104
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. Ernest Shackleton Difficulties 102
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practising for this, I was training for this. Epictetus Difficulties 94
Difficulties are things that show what men are. Epictetus Difficulties 94
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed. William Matthews Difficulties 91
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another. Charles Dickens Difficulties 91
Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on. Virgil Difficulties 88
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. E. T. Bell Difficulties 85
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. Henry Bessemer Difficulties 84
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell Difficulties 82
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Edwin H. Chapin Difficulties 80
I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. Estelle Morris Difficulties 78
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on. Asa Gray Difficulties 78
It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties. Peter Dawson Difficulties 73
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. Robert Staughton Lynd Difficulties 70
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. J. William Fulbright Difficulties 70
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to break the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Isaiah Difficulties 68
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Thomas Carlyle Difficulties 66
If at times our actions seem to have made life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all. John F. Kennedy Difficulties 62
That which renders life burdensome to us, generally arises from the abuse of it. Jean Jacques Rousseau Difficulties 56
Difficulties exist to be surmounted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Difficulties 49
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business, yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use. Pliny Difficulties 46
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. William J.H. Boetcker Difficulties 44
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne. Ovid Difficulties 44
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles H. Spurgeon Difficulties 39
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Louis Kossuth Difficulties 37

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