Difficulty Quotes

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

You will get your difficulties with the point electron.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

Things will always go wrong so ride through your difficulties and learn from them.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.