Difficult Quotes

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Work, Human

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

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

Found, Tried, Wanting

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw

Question, Answer, Obvious

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert Kennedy

Wish, Times, Might

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'Rourke

Parents, May, Discipline

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking, Thoughts, Put

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert

Love, Live, True

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus Aurelius

Impossible, Anyone, Seems

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

Life, Beautiful, Understand

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Success, Nothing, Order

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob Dylan

Nothing, Easy, Less

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
Mitt Romney

Life, Work, Money

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

Understand, Become, Moral

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller

Hope, Today, Tomorrow

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi

Patience, Before, Become

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr

Future, Prediction

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

Work, Done, Making

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Truth, War

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Break, Habit

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

Human, Easy, Seems

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki

Truth, True, Everything

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Abdul Kalam

Life, Game, Person

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

Job, Different, Language

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray Bradbury

Enjoy, Living, Sense

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Easy, Rule, Govern

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

Attitude, Successful, Else

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett

Business, Simple, Behavior

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