A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is…

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinks of difficult people as sandpaper, they may rub & scratch you painfully but you'll end up smooth & polished .

— Nishan Panwar

“Don’t expect good things to come easily, we must work at them. Easy is to think about improving. Difficult is to put these thoughts…

— Anonymous

Remember, all things are difficult before they are easy. What matters the most is what you start doing now.

— Melchor Lim

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

— Anonymous

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

— Sun Tzu

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

— Hannibal

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

— Laozi

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

— Saadi

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall…

— Baltasar Gracian

I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.

— Kim Harrison

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.'…

— Melanie Lynskey

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

“I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.”

— Kim Harrison

“For a Wallace, the difficult is easy, the impossible just takes a little longer.”

— Pendelton C. Wallace