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Quotes About Difficulties

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
~ Jessica Lange
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
~ Alice Morse Earle
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.
~ Jon Stewart
We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.
~ Vincent de Paul
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
~ Carl Jung
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
~ Jane Addams
In a sense, our darker moments and most upsetting feelings are an opportunity for spiritual growth and uncovering our natural wisdom, for waking up—if we choose to use them that way. If so, our deepest insights can emerge from working directly—with awareness—with our own difficulties.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.
~ Paddy McGuinness
I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.
~ Victoria Wood
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
~ Aphra Behn
Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.
~ W. C. Fields
God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.
~ Mark Twight
Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.
~ Ned Vizzini
We wear our problems diffrently
~ Ned Vizzini
We wear our problems differently.
~ Ned Vizzini
Those who solely by good fortune become princes from being private citizens have little trouble in rising, but much in keeping atop; they have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is full of tough choices, indeed.
~ Christian Andersen
Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight? Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.
~ Christine Feehan
Some problems are easy to find and hard to fix; some are hard to find and easy to fix; some go both ways.
~ Tracy Kidder
WASHINGTON, D. C., December 8, 1863, 10.2 A.M. MAJ.-GENERAL U. S. GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Knoxville and at Chattanooga is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks, my profoundest gratitude for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all, A. LINCOLN, President U. S. The safety of Burnside's army and the loyal people
~ Ulysses S. Grant
That was one of Monck's troubles; the other was at the opposite end of the social scale—the Communists. They were making all the difficulties they could for Socialists, as well as for Americans; they wanted everything to fail, not merely with capitalism, but also with Social Democracy, in order that the workers might be driven to Communism.
~ Upton Sinclair