Difficulty Quotes

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

To the stars through difficulties.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.

Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

Difficulties allow us to change for the better.

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving and stay positive, you'll get through it.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can.