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Quotes About Difficulties

Is it sometimes a difficult path? Sure. Does it make for an interesting life? The most. Will the inevitable difficulties and obstacles associated with creativity make you suffer? That part—cross my heart—is entirely up to you.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am grateful to my mother, Carole Gilbert, for teaching me how to work my ass off and how to be resilient in the face of life's difficulties.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and nationality, who were thoroughly miserable.' 'So you believe in taking the chance?' 'Certainly. What is life without some risk?
~ Elizabeth Peters
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Endurance is composed of four attributes: eagerness, fear, piety and anticipation (of death). So whoever is eager for Paradise will ignore temptations; whoever fears the fire of Hell will abstain from sins; whoever practises piety will easily bear the difficulties of life and whoever anticipates death will hasten towards good deeds.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
It is always difficult, but when you have been a manager for a while with different teams, sometimes you were only playing once a week, trying to avoid relegation. When you have experience, you know all about the different feelings. Clearly, I would prefer to be fighting for the title or for the Champions League, but you must accept the situation.
~ Rafael Benitez
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
~ John Hume
I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
~ Blase J. Cupich
I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help.
~ Megan Rapinoe
When you're losing, crap happens.
~ Derek Carr
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
~ John Moody
It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.
~ John F. Kennedy Jr.
Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things I want to ask you.
~ Richard Siken
Sometimes the simplest and most obvious distinctions give rise to the profoundest intellectual difficulties, and things most commonplace in our daily experience drive home to us the depths of our ignorance
~ Richard Taylor
Every time you forget that character is one of God's purposes for your life, you will become frustrated by your circumstances. You'll wonder, "Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time?" One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult!
~ Rick Warren
It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.
~ Kim Edwards
Bad things don't just grow on one path, they're everywhere.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
~ George Santayana
Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.
~ John Mott
Could it be that God has been trying to form the quality of patience in us by putting difficulties, obstacles, and obstinate people in our lives? God's curriculum for all of us includes several courses on Patience 101, 201, and 301. Will we try to skip school, or will we be good students and learn our lessons?
~ Zig Ziglar
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.
~ Josi Ortega y Gasset
Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.
~ Mike Aquilina