Difficult Quotes

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong

Love, Loneliness, Human

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sowing, Reaping

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Time, Experience

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Mitt Romney

Government, Business, Help

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing, Able, Precious

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

Life, Live, Less

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara de Angelis

Time, Women, Feeling

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Together, Two, Loved

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth, Selfish, Mistakes

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair

Understand, Depends, Salary

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso

Loved, Oneself, Hated

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Happiness, Give

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Paulo Coelho

Book, Read, Computer

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
Paulo Coelho

Whole, Easy, Seem

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.
Hillary Clinton

Yourself, Job, Create

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
Robert Anthony

Change, Suffer, Becomes

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II

Mother, Moment, Kiss

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Found, Left

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie

Today, Sacrifice, Country

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
Dido Armstrong

Time, End, Long

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Great, Enemy

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Knowledge, Themselves, Times

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Health, Mind, Trying

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
James A. Lovell

Thankful, Job, Someone

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

Simple, Sacrifice, Place

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
Chinua Achebe

Food, Yourself, Someone

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac

Time, Husband, Simple

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville

End, Revolution, Novel

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