Difficulty Quotes

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Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened… — Stafford Cripps
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever. — James A. Baldwin
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. — William C. Bryant
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. — Dirk Benedict
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. — Ninette de Valois
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't… — Duke Ellington
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. — Ellen Terry
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any… — Hannah Whitall Smith
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that… — Nhat Hanh
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that… — George Albert Wells
Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any… — Nirmala Srivastava
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion… — Alan Greenspan
Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little… — William Osler
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus,… — Felix Klein
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the… — Jack Kornfield
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life.… — Goswami Kriyananda
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously,… — B. C. Forbes

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