Difficult Quotes

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

Love, Good, Hate

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

Yourself, Important, Pride

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

Love, Bread, Hunger

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Denis Waitley

Courage, Working, Problems

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus

Courage, Happy, Adversity

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts

Life, Trust, Learning

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember, Moment, Place

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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Lao Tzu

Easy, Managing, Anticipate

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill

Wise, Ahead, Further

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai Lama

Long, Union, Run

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

Victory, Problems, Less

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Great, Single, Small

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

Girl, Two, Away

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Nose, Large

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Anger, Done

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Country, Available

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

Good, Words, Find

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Vincent Van Gogh

Life, Strength, Heart

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

Great, Small, Easy

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Morning, Experience, Sleep

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia

Put, Position, Easiest

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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph

Sun, High, Trouble

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

Free, Fools, Chains

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Moment, Less

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Found, Tried, Wanting

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac

Easy, Getting, Action

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Work, Happiness, Best

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart

Life, Change, Decision

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

Loses, Occupied

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