It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Henry Ellis

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville

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

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

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

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
Henry L. Stimson

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

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
Morgan Freeman

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Greta Garbo

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
Eric Cantona

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Eric Cantona

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta Garbo

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Epictetus

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Jean Kerr

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
Orlando Bloom

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

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Steven Tyler

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

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Ralph Marston