Best 460 quotes in «difficulty quotes» category

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

Jesus came to save us, not just from politics, enemies, challenges, or difficulties.

I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Only entropy comes easy.