Difficulty Quotes

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

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

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

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

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

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

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.

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.

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

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

The contour eludes me.

"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty

There is no excellency without difficulty.

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.

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

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.

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.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

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.

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

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.

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.

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.

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

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

Bumps are the things we climb on.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Difficulties melt away under tact.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.