Difficulties Quotes

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

~ Robert Fulghum

If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).

~ Eraldo Banovac

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

~ Virginia Woolf

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

~ John Lanchester

I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

~ Maya Angelou

Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.

~ Laarni Venus Marie Giango

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

~ Enid Blyton

Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves.This is precisely why you're stuck. Starting without seeing the end is difficult, so we often wait until we see the end, scanning relentlessly for the right way, the best way and the perfect way.The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.Step by step, page by page, interaction by interaction. As you start moving, you can't help but improve, can't help but incrementally find yourself getting back toward your north star.You might not end up with perfect, but it's significantly more valuable than being stuck.Don't just start. Continue. Ship. Repeat.

~ Seth Godin

They want me to contain the raging fires within me. They need me to appreciate glowing embers, to understand that even weak flames need to be managed with a lot of careful planning.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

If human help fails, God will never forsake thee.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must learn from our struggles.

~ Roger Thurow

When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things bad and change something!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s kinda cool to have a black eye every now and then. And I think it’s definitely okay to have scars, and it’s definitely okay to hurt, and be in pain and show it. And that’s why we have friends in this life. And it’s why we have music.

~ Hayley Williams

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

~ Sōseki Natsume

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

~ Criss Jami

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

~ John Lanchester

Whatever happens to us is beneficial.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.

~ James C. Dobson

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

~ Philip Roth

Those who are difficult to love, are difficult to love because they have gone through difficult things which have made them the way they are. What you need to do is to forgive, what they need is your love.

~ Jeanette Coron

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

~ Alain De Botton

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

~ John Moody

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

~ Mao Zedong

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

~ Livy

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

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

~ Charles Spurgeon

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

~ E. W. Howe