Difficulty Quotes
2104 quotes by 1367 authors
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of…
— Peter Wright
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I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to…
— Thom Yorke
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
— Mao Zedong
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Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.
— David A. Bednar
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Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words…
— Joseph Stalin
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes…
— James A. Baldwin
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If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has…
— Natalie Goldberg
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big…
— Dr. Seuss
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Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically…
— Daniel Pennac
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Out of clutter, find simplicity.
— Albert Einstein
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of…
— Abigail Adams
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The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
— Lewis Carroll
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It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to…
— Paulo Coelho
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It…
— Kathleen Norris
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his…
— Charles de Gaulle
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Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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