Difficulty Quotes

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Optimist, Sees

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Past, High, Act

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Optimist, Sees

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Strength, Decisions, Growth

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall

Great, God, Blessing

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Wife, Friend, Adversity

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao Tzu

Best, Knows, Lead

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

Success, Makes, Interest

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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes

Necessary, Resolve, Divide

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome

Long, Friend, Found

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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

Old, Lies, Ideas

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Hugh Prather

Stupid, Humble, Honesty

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins

Character, Forms, Crucible

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr

Change, Great, Deep

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mean, Him, Wish

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron

Offensive, Fascinated, Merely

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, Long, Learned

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

Later, Ghost, Disturb

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer

Great, Friend, Find

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus

Reputation, Greater, Storms

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams

Different, Late, Trees

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck

Pain, Desire, Lies

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, True, Try

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer

Head, Empty, Forcing

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Grace, Absence

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts

God, Become, Idea

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

Education, Great, Experience

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