Difficulty Quotes

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.


~ Sara Sheridan

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

~ Sara Sheridan

Things can’t mend without being broken.

~ A.j. Compton

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn

~ C.j. Redwine

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?

~ Suman Pokhrel

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

May you find the grace of triumph in any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Endure graciously the difficult times.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

~ Jack Kornfield

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

~ Eugene Paul Wigner

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

~ Orson Scott Card

Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.

~ Robert Fanney

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

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

~ Junot Díaz

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know, for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

~ Évariste Galois

Vow not to be like those who tend to allow their difficulties to distract them from the enormous rewards ahead.

~ Hafiz

In the learning process, a learner does encounter some difficulty. But with diligent, you will master the act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

~ Charles De Gaulle

If you're trying to figure out why something's not working,” Old Lou had explained, “just focus on the things that do work. Move through those things first and eventually you'll find the one part that's stuck.

~ Danika Stone

You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.

~ The Mother

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

~ Thomas F. Woodlock

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

~ Carl David Anderson

A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.

~ Kenneth Eade

If you find an action hard, do not try it but master.

~ Mahin Choudhary

If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.

~ Fridtjof Nansen

Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

~ Thornton Wilder

There are two types of hurdles. Difficulty and Challenge. What we face, depends on whether or not we love what we do

~ Vignesh S

When someone has had an exceptionally challenging or difficult earthly life, those challenges are often by design. Our Master will test those who are ready to expand. The struggles are designed to increase one’s strength and to be a springboard into higher realms.

~ Kate Mcgahan

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

~ Upton Sinclair

I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks.

~ Tim Fargo

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

~ Lois Lowry

When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.

~ Joe Brooks

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert