Quotes on Difficulty

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

There is no excellency without difficulty.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

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

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose...you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself.

Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.

Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.