Quotes About Difficulty

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg

These social pressures took their toll on his marriage

Reporters struggled to convey the magnitude of this fine.

The Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety: he is deeply interested to execute his purpose, if possible. . . . In common life, to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty. . . . To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes.

Uno sería infinitamente generoso con los muertos amados: pero claro, siempre es mucho más difícil ser generoso con los vivos.

was calling for us like a madman. When we reached him he was dripping with perspiration, and trembling like a startled horse. We had great difficulty in soothing him. He complained that he was in civilian kit, and wanted to tear my clothes off his body. I ordered him to strip, and we made a second exchange as quickly as possible.

Ce n'est pas le chemin qui est difficile, c'est le difficile qui est le chemin.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

It isn't at all difficult for philosophy to begin. Far from it: it begins with nothing and can accordingly always begin. What seems so difficult to philosophy and the philosophers is to stop.

A "no" does not hide anything, but a yes can very easily become a deception, a self-deception; which of all difficulties is the most difficult to conquer. Ah, it is all too true that, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

Because change is difficult," Shiloh said. "As with letting go of anything, a memory, a relationship . . . even the bad seems better than the nothingness that might take its place. We know this.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

I have already expressed the conviction which I entertain as to the latter event. *r I do not imagine that the white and black races will ever live in any country upon an equal footing. But I believe the difficulty to be still greater in the United States than elsewhere.