Quotes about difficulties

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

Afer, Publius Terentius on difficulties   

"No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."

Aleichem, Sholom on difficulties
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"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on difficulties
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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on difficulties
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"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

Bilkey, James G. on difficulties
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"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."

Bottome, Phyllis on difficulties   

"People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough."

Briscoe, Stuart on difficulties   

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

Bruyere, Jean De La on difficulties   

"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."

Carlyle, Thomas on difficulties
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Channing, William Ellery on difficulties
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

Colton, Charles Caleb on difficulties
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"Hardship makes the world obscure."

Delillo, Don on difficulties   

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"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 on difficulties
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"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."

Forbes, B. C. on difficulties   

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on difficulties
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"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on difficulties   

"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people."

Guthrie, Thomas on difficulties
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"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."

Herbert, George on difficulties   

"As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private."

Howe, Edgar Watson on difficulties   

"Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do ."

Howe, Edgar Watson on difficulties   

"Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself."

Korbut, Olga on difficulties   

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."

Kossuth, Louis on difficulties   

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn'"

Lewis, C. S. on difficulties
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"In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history."

Lippmann, Walter on difficulties   

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties   

"Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas."

Maclaren, Alexander on difficulties
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"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"

Marquis, Don on difficulties   

"It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men."

Mathews, William on difficulties   

"Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance."

Neil, John on difficulties   

"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another."

Nixon, Richard M. on difficulties