Quotes on Difficulty

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.

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

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.