Difficulty Quotes
2104 quotes by 1367 authors
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The fool learns by suffering.
— Hesiod
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when…
— Aristotle
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The lot of man-to suffer and die.
— Homer
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
— Sophocles
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Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the…
— Isocrates
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Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the…
— Epictetus
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Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only…
— John of the Cross
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A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous…
— Carl Holmes
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The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and…
— Dixon Edward Hoste
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Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage…
— Cesar Milstein
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And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into…
— Rajneesh
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It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow,…
— Rajneesh
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
— Harold Jeffreys
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We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others…
— Amilcar Cabral
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Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
— Mark Batterson
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What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and…
— Alasdair Gray
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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for…
— Shana Alexander
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their…
— Samuel Smiles
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