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Quotes About Difficulty

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
~ Faith Ringgold
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
~ Sivananda
It is impossible, but that's what makes it a worthy challenge.
~ Socrates
Everything that is great is as rare to find as it is difficult to do.
~ Spinoza
You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Bints are the very devil to understand.
~ Stan Barstow
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.
~ Stanislaus I
Mutluyken adil davranmak, mutsuzken adil davranmaktan daima daha kolayd?r. syf- 160
~ Stefan Zweig
nada parece más difícil en la tierra que renunciar al Poder.
~ Stefan Zweig
"Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Advice for New Knitters When choosing a pattern, look for ones that have words such as "simple", "basic", and "easy". If you see the words "intriguing", "challenging", or "intricate", look elsewhere. If you happen across a pattern that says "heirloom", slowly put down the pattern and back away. "Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief".
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.
~ Madeline Kahn
Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.
~ A. H. Almaas
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
~ George Eliot
I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
~ Bill Moyers
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
~ George Eliot
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
~ Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
The thing that made space flight difficult was the thing that, to my grandfather, made it beautiful: To reach escape velocity, my grandmother, like any spacefarer, would be obliged to leave
~ Michael Chabon
It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
~ Michael Crichton
Y tú sabes sonambular de verdad?-preguntó la muchacha sin aliento-. ¿Y nos lo puedes enseñar? -¡Claro!-respondió el muchacho-. Aunque solo es muy difícil. A dos ya es mucho más fácil. Y si lo hacen muchos a la vez siempre sale bien. ¡Todos los sonámbulos de verdad lo saben!
~ Michael Ende