Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Anything worth changing is not easy to change.

Everything's a battle.

Any opponent can be a stumbling block.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

There is no gain without struggle.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.