Quotes with difficulties

  • 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.
  • Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
  • Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
  • Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
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  • William Ellery Channing Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
    John Quincy Adams
    American statesman (1767 - 1848)
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  • Epictetus Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • James Cash Penney I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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  • Aesop Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bernard Pivot All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Winston Churchill Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • B. C. Forbes Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Epictetus Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Seneca Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boris Yeltsin Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Andrei Sakharov For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Asa Gray I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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