Difficulty Quotes

When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test. (Keanu Reeves)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. View quote
Winston Churchill
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. View quote
Edgar Degas
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. View quote
Anne Rice
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. View quote
Eric Hoffer
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. View quote
Jerome
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. View quote
William Hazlitt
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. (Nora Ephron)
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. View quote
Thomas Beecham
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. View quote
Manuel Puig
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. View quote
Epictetus
An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. View quote
George S. Patton
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If you learn "indoor" techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. View quote
Seneca
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. View quote
Norman Angell
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. View quote
Václav Havel
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration nay, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. View quote
Plutarch