Difficulty Quotes

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Everyone faces difficulties; not everyone looks for the opportunities in every difficulty.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.