Difficulty Quotes

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. — Niccolo Machiavelli
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. — Winston Churchill
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted… — Pliny the Elder
A difficulty for every solution. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be… — Richard P. Feynman
Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further. — George MacDonald
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. — Eric Hoffer
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to… — Joseph Addison
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself… — Samuel Johnson
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my… — Michelangelo
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. — Pablo Picasso
Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result… — Leonardo da Vinci
Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than… — Adrienne Rich
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. — Tom Peters
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him. — John Steinbeck
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of… — Henri Matisse

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