“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.” — Louis Pasteur Quote

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.

I think that Tiger Woods takes over so much that if he wasn't around, if he had retired, the golf world would be in serious difficulties.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.