Difficulty famous quotes

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Religious #Cases #Difficulty

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
-- Abram L. Sachar

#Privilege #Difficulty

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.
-- Al Gore

#Energy #Demand #Difficulty

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness.  They show you to its door.
-- Alan Cohen

#Greatness #Doors #Difficulty

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Moments #Pleasure #Difficulty

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Lying #Merit #Difficulty

My difficulties belong to me!
-- Alfred Adler

#Difficulty

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
-- Alistair Begg

#Faces #Christianity #Difficulty

The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
-- Angus Buchan

#Miracle #Difficulty #Impossibility

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Philosophy #Difficulty #Firm

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Arise #Difficulty #Doubtful

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Language #Difficulty #Translations

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
-- Aubrey de Grey

#Accepting #Difficulty #Impossibility

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Certain #Last Words #Difficulty

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
-- Bernard Pivot

#Gender #Difficulty #Speakers

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
-- Brendan Coyle

#Father #Destruction #Difficulty

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
-- Brian Tracy

#Attitude #Succeed #Difficulty

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
-- Brian Tracy

#Matter #Succeed #Difficulty

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
-- Brian Tracy

#Rewards #Determined #Difficulty

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?
-- Brian Tracy

#Two #Difficulty

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
-- Brigham Young

#Fighting #Warfare #Difficulty

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Difficulty

One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.
-- Carl Ludwig Siegel

#Real #Problem #Difficulty

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Suicide #Ambition #Difficulty

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Fortune #Difficulty #Careful

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Full Potential #Realizing #Difficulty

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Science #Difficulty

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
-- Charles Olson

#Lasts #Made #Difficulty

We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.
-- Dalai Lama

#Faces #Size #Difficulty

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
-- Dan Millman

#Blessing #Clarity #Difficulty

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
-- Dan Rather

#Journey #Long #Difficulty

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
-- David R. Hawkins

#Genius #Difficulty #Acknowledge

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
-- David Ricardo

#Commodity #Increase #Difficulty

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...
-- David Ricardo

#Corn #Lasts #Difficulty

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
-- Edward Somers

#Problem #Coping #Difficulty

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Differences #Making A Difference #Difficulty

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.
-- Emmet Fox

#Faith #Roots #Difficulty

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
-- Emmet Fox

#Thinking About You #Thinking #Difficulty

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
-- Enid Blyton

#Trying #Difficulty

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
-- Epictetus

#Philosophical #Difficulty #Shows

It is difficulties that show what men are.
-- Epictetus

#Courage #Men #Difficulty

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Society #Deceiving #Difficulty

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Alliances #Difficulty

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
-- Ernest Shackleton

#Overcoming #Difficulty

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.
-- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

#Teacher #Pressure #Difficulty

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
-- F. Murray Abraham

#Film #Surprise #Difficulty

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
-- Fanny Burney

#Too Late #Difficulty #Situation

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Mind #Difficulty #Ill

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
-- Frederic Chopin

#Ghost #Difficulty

My Paintings are Battles.
-- Georg Baselitz

#Battle #Painting #Difficulty

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
-- George Berkeley

#Simple #Mind #Difficulty

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
-- George Muller

#Overcoming #Difficulty #Assurance

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.
-- George Polya

#Overcoming #Method #Difficulty

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
-- George Santayana

#Education #Ideas #Difficulty

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.
-- Giorgio Napolitano

#Caught #Difficulty #Caught Up

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Order #Scene #Difficulty

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through
-- Greg Laurie

#Obstacles #Lord #Difficulty

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#Self #Conquer #Difficulty

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.
-- Harold B. Lee

#Important #Today #Difficulty

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
-- Harold Jeffreys

#Real #Difficulty

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.
-- Harry Gordon Selfridge

#Patronage #Difficulty

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
-- Helen Keller

#Causes #Difficulty #Complexity

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Want #Facts #Difficulty

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
-- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

#Knowledge #Pursuit #Difficulty

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
-- Henry Ford

#Difficulty

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
-- Henry L. Stimson

#Long #Difficult #Difficulty

A difficulty for every solution.
-- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

#Difficulty #Solutions

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
-- Horace

#Worthy #Difficulty #Intervention

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
-- Horace

#Illustration #Settling #Difficulty

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
-- Horace

#Difficulty #Explanation

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
-- Howard Aiken

#Mean #Problem #Difficulty

We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them.
-- James B. Martino

#Faces #Difficulty

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
-- James Wolfe

#Loss #Choices #Difficulty

War is an option of difficulties.
-- James Wolfe

#War #History #Difficulty

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
-- Jane Austen

#May #Individual #Difficulty

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
-- Jaron Lanier

#Mother #People #Difficulty

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
-- Jean Vanier

#Quality #Weakness #Difficulty

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
-- Jean Vanier

#Grace #Signals #Difficulty

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Lying #Producers #Difficulty

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
-- Jeremy Bentham

#Would Be #Difficulty #Wiser

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Skills #Difficulty #Workers

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
-- Jim Rohn

#Reality #Difficulty #Ability

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
-- John Barth

#Way #Difficulty

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
-- John Carmack

#Rockets #Proportion #Difficulty

difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

#Problem #Difficulty #Wholeheartedly

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
-- John James Ingalls

#Stars #Difficulty #Ads

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Character #Vicious #Difficulty

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
-- John Milton

#Difficulty #Labour

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
-- Joseph Lancaster

#Pay #Difficulty #Complaints

Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.
-- Joyce Meyer

#Mean #Fighting #Difficulty

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
-- Judi Dench

#Difficulty #Esteem #Expected

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
-- Julian Barnes

#Depth #Difficulty #God Knows

Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.
-- Kim Campbell

#Tired #Politician #Difficulty

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Hero #Difficulty

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
-- Lascelles Abercrombie

#Important #Achieve #Difficulty

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
-- Lionel Trilling

#Literature #Possibility #Difficulty

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
-- Livy

#Littles #Graves #Difficulty

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
-- Livy

#Difficulty

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Sweet #Overcoming #Difficulty

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon
-- Margaret Stohl

#Difficulty #Impossibility