Quotes about Difficulty
I have not succeeded in completely shaking free of religion, and when I'm faced with any difficulty, the first thing that occurs to me is to pray, just in case, which is what all Chileans do, even atheists . . . forgive me, agnostics.
- Isabel Allende
Even though the majority of Chileans, especially the entire middle class, supported him. Parliament (again the parliament!) made it difficult for him to govern; it forced him to resign his position and exiled him to Europe.
- Isabel Allende
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
- Anonymous
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
- Samuel Johnson
We say that the difficulty causes us to respond in sinful ways. But the Bible teaches again and again that our circumstances don't cause us to act as we do. They only expose the true condition of our hearts, revealed in our words and actions.
- Timothy Lane
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge!
- Carl Jung
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
- James A. Garfield
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
- Paulo Coelho
Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.
- Victor Hugo