Difficulties Quotes

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.

~ Jennifer Delucy

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

~ Angelica Hopes

When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The difficulties in life are vital for our personal growth and well-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits

~ Sunday Adelaja

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.

~ Kevin A. Mckoy

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

~ Winston Churchill

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

~ English Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.

~ English Proverb

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

~ Hayley Williams

When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

~ Muriel Spark

It is impossible not to live miserably if one chooses to frequently focus on one's disappointments, mistakes, failures, weaknesses, difficulties, and people's negative opinions.

~ Hafiz

The struggles, challenges, and obstacles that it takes to succeed in life is what makes success more valuable. Nothing great comes easy, and nothing easy can ever equate to greatness.

~ Hafiz

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.You can climb it and cross to the other side.You can go around it.You can dig under it.You can fly over it.You can blow it up.You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.You can turn around and go back the way you came.Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

~ Vera Nazarian

It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

~ Alain De Botton

Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.

~ The Mother

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

~ Philip Pullman

Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There is always a mountain ahead, that must be conquered.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

~ Lois Lowry

Problems are never as difficult as when they are your own.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

~ Frank Delaney

God knows our situation, He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

~ C.s. Lewis

God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.

~ C.b. Cook

Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

The difficulties of life don't stop attacking your self-worth and self-confidence, you just have to repair and fortify every time. Recall and recite it; tell yourself what you are worth.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.

~ Unknown

Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. And owning them made her part of the world, and the world a part of her.

~ Toni Morrison

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

~ Kimberly Giles