Difficulty Quotes

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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a… — Chiang Kai-shek
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? — John Barth
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty.… — Ishmael Reed
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey
For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the… — George Washington
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult… — Thomas Paine
I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond… — John Hume
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another… — Sigmund Freud
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as… — James Madison
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest… — John Quincy Adams
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the… — Margaret Sanger
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself. — Charles de Gaulle
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words. — Elizabeth Hardwick
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed. — Livy
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. — Livy
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed… — Charles Babbage
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of… — Alfred the Great

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