Difficulty Quotes

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.

Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

I don't understand the difficulty, people; Love your brother, treat him as an equal.

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.