Difficulty Quotes


It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. Charles The Bold Difficulty 213
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Difficulty 140
The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice. Bavee Difficulty 123
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams Difficulty 121
The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path. Bhagavad Gita Difficulty 112
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. Ralph Waldo Emerson Difficulty 104
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. James G. Bilkey Difficulty 101
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson Difficulty 100
Hardship makes the world obscure. Don Delillo Difficulty 97
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Difficulty 96
For every mountain there is a miracle. Robert H. Schuller Difficulty 95
It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved. Samuel Smiles Difficulty 95
When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing. Proverbs Difficulty 92
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Jean De La Bruyere Difficulty 92
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Louis Kossuth Difficulty 91
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. Norman Vincent Peale Difficulty 89
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach. Source Unknown Difficulty 86
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. Epictetus Difficulty 86
Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast. Charles Swindoll Difficulty 85
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through. F. W. Nichol Difficulty 82
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Difficulty 82
To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone. Dr. David Schwartz Difficulty 81
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. George Herbert Difficulty 81
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. Robert H. Schuller Difficulty 80
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. Les Brown Difficulty 79
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. Sholom Aleichem Difficulty 78
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. Orison Swett Marden Difficulty 78
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. Phyllis Bottome Difficulty 77
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis Difficulty 76
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. Edward W. Howe Difficulty 76
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Difficulty 76
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. Orison Swett Marden Difficulty 75
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. Henry Ward Beecher Difficulty 74
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. Source Unknown Difficulty 74
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. John Carmack Difficulty 73
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. Samuel Smiles Difficulty 73
Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. Charles E. Popplestone Difficulty 73
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Sir Winston Churchill Difficulty 72
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. Epictetus Difficulty 70
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. Denis Waitley Difficulty 69
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( The Younger )Difficulty 68
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. Samuel Smiles Difficulty 66
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. Alexander Maclaren Difficulty 63
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. Frank Harris Difficulty 62
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford Difficulty 62
Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. John Neil Difficulty 61
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. B. C. Forbes Difficulty 61
Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific. Lee H. Hamilton Difficulty 61
The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. Clarence Blasier Difficulty 59
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Difficulty 58

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