Difficulty Quotes

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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be… — Samuel Smiles
The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to… — Herbert Newton Casson
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it… — Louis J. Mordell
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,… — Jacques Barzun
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way… — Fernando J. Corbato
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. — Benjamin Banneker
Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we… — Nhat Hanh
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found… — Saint Augustine
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we… — Annie Besant
Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate. — Richard Branson
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top. — Harry S. Truman
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere. — Vincent Van Gogh
Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to… — Barbara Rose
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house,… — Nhat Hanh
Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it. — John C. Maxwell
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?… — J. Michael Bishop
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:… — C.J. Sansom

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