Difficulties Quotes - page 3

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. (Livy)
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. View quote
Abigail Adams
I've always had difficulties with female characters. View quote
John le Carré
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. View quote
Francis de Sales
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. View quote
Beverly Sills
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste. View quote
Rebecca West
If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way. View quote
Brian Aldiss
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails. (Margaret Sanger)
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty. View quote
Ralph Ellison
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad's of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Out of difficulties grow miracles. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul, - this makes life worth living. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. View quote
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish. View quote
John Muir
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do. View quote
James Hudson Taylor
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them. (James Hudson Taylor)
It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.. View quote
Titian
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. View quote
Louis Pasteur