Quotes with difficult

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  • Horace Mann It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • John Wooden It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • S. Maxwell Coder It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • William James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • E. M. Forster It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
    A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 1
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William E. Gladstone It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • John Henry Newman It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Anne Tyler It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Henry Rollins It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Mandrell It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bae Doona It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
    Bae Doona
    South Korean actress and photographer (1979 - )
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