quotes about Difficulty
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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
-- Abram L. Sachar -
When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.
-- Al Gore -
The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.
-- Alan Cohen -
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
-- Alexandre DumasSource : Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.269, Penguin
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Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
-- Alistair Begg -
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The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
-- Angus BuchanSource : "Fictional character: Angus Buchan". Faith Like Potatoes, www.imdb.com. 2006.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
-- Aubrey de GreySource : "You Can Live Forever: Is Immortality Plausible? Or Is It Quack Science?". Interview with Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. July 24, 2013.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
-- Bernard Pivot -
I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
-- Brendan Coyle -
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For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
-- Brian Tracy -
Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
-- Brian Tracy -
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
-- Brian Tracy -
After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?
-- Brian Tracy -
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Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
-- Brigham Young -
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
-- C. S. Lewis -
One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.
-- Carl Ludwig SiegelSource : Carl Ludwig Siegel (2016). “Transcendental Numbers. (AM-16)”, p.84, Princeton University Press
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
-- Cesare Pavese -
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press
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We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.
-- Dalai Lama -
Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
-- Dan Millman -
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
-- Dan RatherSource : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2014
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Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
-- David R. HawkinsSource : David R. Hawkins “Along the Path to Enlightenment”, Hay House, Inc
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The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.377
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The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.490
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Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
-- Edward Somers -
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
-- Elizabeth HardwickSource : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.112, New York Review of Books
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The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.
-- Emmet Fox -
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
-- Emmet Fox -
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
-- Enid Blyton -
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
-- Epictetus -
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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 -
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
-- Eric RohmerSource : "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
-- Ernest ShackletonSource : "Shackleton". Book by Roland Huntford, 2013.
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I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.
-- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley -
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
-- F. Murray AbrahamSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
-- Fanny Burney -
A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
-- Frederic Chopin -
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
-- George Berkeley -
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
-- George Muller -
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My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.
-- George Polya -
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
-- George Santayana -
It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.
-- Giorgio Napolitano -
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
-- Gloria Swanson -
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If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through
-- Greg LaurieSource : FaceBook post by Greg Laurie from Jun 19, 2013
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Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
-- Harold B. Lee -
The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
-- Harold Jeffreys -
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Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.
-- Harry Gordon Selfridge -
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
-- Helen Keller -
Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
-- Henry BlackabySource : Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (1998). “Experiencing God Day by Day”, B&H Publishing Group
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Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
-- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux -
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The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
-- Henry Ford -
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
-- Henry L. Stimson -
A difficulty for every solution.
-- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel -
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
-- Horace -
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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
-- Horace -
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
-- Horace -
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
-- Howard Aiken -
We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them.
-- James B. Martino -
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There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
-- Jane Austen -
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
-- Jaron Lanier -
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I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
-- Jean VanierSource : Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.185, Paulist Press
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A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
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The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.104, Coventry House Publishing
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
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A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
-- Jerry Rubin -
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
-- Jim Rohn -
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
-- John Barth -
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
-- John Carmack -
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difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
-- John Daishin BuksbazenSource : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
-- John James Ingalls -
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
-- John Milton -
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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
-- Joseph LancasterSource : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.142
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Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.
-- Joyce Meyer -
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
-- Judi Dench -
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
-- Julian Barnes -
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Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.
-- Kim Campbell -
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
-- Lascelles Abercrombie -
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
-- Lionel TrillingSource : 1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.
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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
-- Livy -
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon
-- Margaret Stohl -