Difficulty Quotes
2104 quotes by 1367 authors
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a…
— Fred Hoyle
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No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within…
— Virginia Wade
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
— William James
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
— Frederic Chopin
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
— Samuel Johnson
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
— Alice James
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Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability…
— Maya Angelou
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It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
— Dalai Lama
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Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
— Benjamin Hoff
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I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must…
— Walter Russell
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I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by…
— George C. Marshall
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
— Albert Einstein
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes…
— Humphry Davy
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Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
— Charles Darwin
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What…
— Alfred Binet
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the…
— James C. Collins
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On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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