A Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
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Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.
Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
I like to win the difficulties, because when you win the difficulties, it makes you stronger, so I'm trying to do everything to come up to a new level.
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.
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