Difficulty
The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
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Difficulty Quotations
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
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius
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
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins
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
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore
Difficulty Translations
difficulty in Afrikaans is moeilikheid
difficulty in Dutch is bezwaar, moeilijkheid, strubbeling
difficulty in German is Schwierigkeiten, Schwierigkeit
difficulty in Latin is impedimentum, difficultas
difficulty in Norwegian is vanskelighet
difficulty in Portuguese is dificuldade
difficulty in Spanish is dificultad, inconveniente
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