Chapter 19 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch19.htm; originally published in The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains (June 11, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 321. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
Lajos Kossuth (also known as Louis Kossoth), as quoted in Human Development in Action (1942) by University of California, and The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman.
Misattributed
“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams
Context: I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
“There will be tremendous difficulties to surmount whilst trying to arrive at the coming stages...”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
Instructions Given at the Conference (Fall 1950)
1950's
Robert McKee (1941) American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.”
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Source: The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948) Moral of the Work, p. ix http://books.google.de/books?id=HzlT3t05OHoC&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Easy victories aren’t worth winning.”
Ursula K. Le Guin book The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 54)
“In Iraq, there is no peace without victory. We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2005, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (October 2005)
