Difficult famous quotes

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Inspirational #Helping #Difficult

The difficult thing with quotes on the internet is verifying them
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Internet #Difficult

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,
-- Adam Foulds

#Attention #Littles #Difficult

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
-- Adam Sandler

#Children #Way #Difficult

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Fighting #Favourite #Difficult

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Adam #Conversation #Difficult

Some things are difficult to adapt to.
-- Ahmet Davutoglu

#Difficult

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.
-- Ahmet Zappa

#Overcoming #Dyslexia #Difficult

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Knowing #Sometimes #Difficult

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
-- Alain de Botton

#People #Tasks #Difficult

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
-- Alan Bean

#Moon #Difficult

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
-- Alan Bean

#Artist #Found #Difficult

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.
-- Alan Curbishley

#Thinking #Found #Difficult

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Difficult #Productivity

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
-- Albert Camus

#Heroism #Difficult

Politics is more difficult than physics.
-- Albert Einstein

#Politics #Physics #Difficult

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Intellectual #Found #Difficult

It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Law #Regulation #Difficult

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.
-- Alexander Skarsgard

#Difficult

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
-- Alexander Smith

#Ghost #Injury #Difficult

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Diagnosis #Difficult #Status Quo

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
-- Ambrose

#Saint #Impossible #Difficult

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
-- Amit Abraham

#Confused #Difficult

It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating
-- Amit Abraham

#Heart #Difficult

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.
-- Amy Chua

#Fun #Difficult #Something You Love

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.
-- Andre Kertesz

#Style #Kind #Difficult

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
-- Andrea Jung

#Succeed #Management #Difficult

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.
-- Andres Iniesta

#Trying #Sometimes #Difficult

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
-- Andrew Mason

#Would Be #Culture #Difficult

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Theatre #Difficult #Wells

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about
-- Anita Hill

#Parent #Embarrassing #Difficult

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.
-- Ann Dowd

#Tvs #Difficult

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.
-- Anna Godbersen

#Choices #Window #Difficult

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Communication #Bigs #Difficult

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
-- Anne Carson

#Gertrude #Poet #Difficult

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy

#Creative #Difficult #Circumstances

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Art #Entertainment #Difficult

When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Viruses #Levels #Difficult

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Judging #Difficult #Oneself

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
-- Antonin Scalia

#Constitution #Illusion #Difficult

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Men #Cry #Difficult

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.
-- Antonio Carlos Jobim

#Feminine #Ends #Difficult

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.
-- Apuleius

#Matter #Difficult

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Home #Crime #Difficult

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.
-- Arthur H

#Majestic #Unfolding #Difficult

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Finding Happiness #Impossible #Difficult

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Quiet #Difficult

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Iran #Difficult

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Names #Impossible #Difficult

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.
-- Audrey Tautou

#People #Difficult #Streets

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Ignorance #Would Be #Difficult

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music
-- Ayumi Hamasaki

#Writing #Composer #Difficult

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.
-- Barack Obama

#Constitution #Made #Difficult

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
-- Barbara Mertz

#Enemy #Trouble #Difficult

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.
-- Barbara Woodhouse

#Dog #Owners #Difficult

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
-- Barry Levinson

#Actors #Found #Difficult

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
-- Barry Pepper

#Difficult #Audience

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
-- Baruch Spinoza

#Excellent #Difficult

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
-- Baruch Spinoza

#Realizing #Difficult

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
-- Beatrice Sparks

#Way #Accepting #Difficult

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#Dancer #Training #Difficult

The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.
-- Belinda Peregrin

#Golf #Boring #Difficult

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
-- Ben Elton

#Thinking #Morality #Difficult

Lines are very difficult to learn.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#Lines #Difficult

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Sloth #Easy #Difficult

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
-- Benny Goodman

#Band #Remember #Difficult

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Difficult

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
-- Bernard Pivot

#Adventure #Funny Travel #Difficult

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Simplicity #Difficult

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
-- Bette Davis

#Success #Difficult

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
-- Bhumibol Adulyadej

#Self #Impossible #Difficult

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
-- Bianca Jagger

#Interviews #Difficult

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
-- Bill Hybels

#Difficult #Persons

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
-- Bill Nighy

#Girl #Difficult

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
-- Blanche Lincoln

#Frailty #Difficult #Grows

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
-- Bob Brown

#Kids #Thinking #Difficult

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.
-- Bob Corker

#Regulation #Financial #Difficult

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
-- Bob Geldof

#Personality #Difficult #Wit

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
-- Bob Kane

#Separation #Difficult #Myth

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
-- Boy George

#Crowds #Tests #Difficult

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
-- Brian Eno

#Difficult

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
-- Brian Herbert

#Simplicity #Difficult

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.
-- Bruce Kent

#Gmos #People #Difficult

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.
-- Bruce Nauman

#Teacher #Artist #Difficult

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult
-- Bruno Munari

#Easy #Difficult #Simplify

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Powerful #Difficult #Very Powerful

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.
-- Camille Pissarro

#Truthful #Weak #Difficult

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.
-- Camille Saint-Saens

#Talking #Difficult

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
-- Caprice Bourret

#Simple #Difficult #Humans

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.
-- Carey Mulligan

#Film #Difficult #Stills

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#War #Simple #Difficult

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Compassion #Sometimes #Difficult

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
-- Caroline B. Cooney

#Writing #Agonizing #Difficult

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.
-- Cary Grant

#Being Myself #Difficult #Critics

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Actors #Speak #Difficult

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
-- Catullus

#Love #Passion #Difficult

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Giving Up #Difficult #Horrible

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Trying #Difficult

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Culture #Difficult #Take Time

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
-- Cedric Benson

#Starting #Difficult #Circumstances