Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Variant: It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Barack Obama Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on New Hampshire Primary Night
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on New Hampshire Primary Night (8 January 2008)
2008
“Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
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)
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
April 12, 1908
India's Rebirth
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Diary (7 November 1841)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
“Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Radical Grace: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument
