Quotes About Difficulty

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

There are two roads to reformation for mankind—one through misfortunes of their own, the other through those of others: the former is the most unmistakable, the latter the less painful. One should never therefore voluntarily choose the former, for it makes reformation a matter of great difficulty and danger; but we should always look out for the latter, for thereby we can without hurt to ourselves gain a clear view of the best course to pursue.

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Now astronomical wages are making it very difficult to take somebody who might not even have a transfer fee attached to them, because of the net value that they want and the net value that they're worth.

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.

It's always going to be difficult for Asian countries to create big leagues because Europe is so settled.

You'd never believe how hard it is to find a wetsuit in Boston.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

It's difficult to bowl a good ball but to take a wicket off it, that's even more difficult.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Failure is quite easy to handle because no one is looking at you. Success is difficult to keep and not everyone could handle it.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

Exxon have done a very good job for us. Their difficulty and frustration has also been that as a customer we get very limited dyno time. But they were able to come up with a fuel that made the C-spec work, and we've managed to get that in the car and run that successfully, when the works team haven't been able to do that.

I think there are always times when people want to get out of reality, because sometimes it sucks and it's difficult.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.