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Quotes About Difficulties

It would be easy to fantasize that this would have been better. But we can never know what lies at the end of the path not taken. Other difficulties, other heartaches, other complexities would certainly have emerged. But at least we would have been a family traversing them together.
~ Dani Shapiro
Misfortunes seldom come alone.
~ Daniel Defoe
But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.
~ William L. Shirer
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~ Chopin
I've had more than one person tell me how courageous and strong I am, how brave and cutting-edge. I'm not any of those things. I'm just another person living my life and trying to make my way in the world, a person who has found out that love is complicated and life is difficult, but that companionship is worth all the king's ransom.
~ Helen Boyd
ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine—the special pleading of selfish interests.
~ Henry Hazlitt
The operating is the easy part, you know,' he said. 'By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making.
~ Henry Marsh
You might expect that seeing so much pain and suffering might help you keep your own difficulties in perspective but, alas, it does not.
~ Henry Marsh
I learned from my mother that there is a greatness in all of us, and that all of us are delivered to this world with a mission. I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
~ Les Brown
Those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
~ Lewis Carroll
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
~ John McCain
A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
You have years where most things go your way, and you have years where more things than usual seem like a challenge.
~ Theo Epstein
The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
~ David Ricardo
Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difíciles, maridos engañados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aquí los asuntos más comunes; y el que más enriquecía la Casa de Expósitos era siempre el más aplaudido.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.
~ Irene Cara
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
~ Andrzej Wajda
When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.
~ Paul Merton
What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.
~ Timothy Murphy
Everybody has their struggles.
~ Calvin Johnson
I think each generation struggles with its own set of problems.
~ Freddie Fox
I have as many foibles, challenges, shortcomings and struggles as anybody else.
~ Asher Keddie
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.
~ Christina Applegate
Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.
~ Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber