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Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
-210 AD

“Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.”

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Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
·218 BC·The Alps

I will either find a way or make one.

Herodotus
Herodotus
·-440 AD

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
·-218 AD

I will either find a way, or make one.

Karl Popper
Karl Popper
·1994·London, England

All life is problem-solving.

Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
·-218 AD

We will either find a way through these mountains, or we will make a way through them. No barrier of nature shall stop us.

Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton
·1909

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
·1955

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Karl Popper
Karl Popper
·1959·London, England

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her.

George Washington
George Washington
·1775·Valley Forge

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Henry Ford
Henry Ford
·1928

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
·1972·Huntsville, Alabama, USA

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Luigi Cornaro
Luigi Cornaro
·1558

I found that a strict and regular life is the true way to conquer nature, and that the proverb which says that nature is so powerful is in part false.

Seneca
Seneca
·62 AD·Rome

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
·1931·Chartwell

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
·1889·Turin

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Seneca
Seneca
·63 AD·Rome

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
·1744·Philadelphia

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
·1903

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Virgil
Virgil
·29 BCE

Relentless toil conquers all.

Confucius
Confucius
·490 BC·State of Chen

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
·1580

Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.

Persius
Persius
·62 AD·Rome

He who endures, conquers.

Carl Jung
Carl Jung
·1916

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Herodotus
Herodotus
·-440 AD

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
·1983

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.