Adversity Quote by Paulo Coelho

“Difficulty’ is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are. Religions”

— Paulo Coelho

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion;…

— Samuel Warren

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

— Epictetus

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

— Michel de Montaigne

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

— Paul Valery

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

— William Shakespeare

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

— Julia Cameron

“Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we…

— Edmund Burke

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

— Ovid

“The difficulty lies in the simplicity”

— Maria Anna van Driel