Best Difficulty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel

“In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.”

Whole Facts Able Felt Equal Paper Logic Difficulty Solve Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Schemes Disagreeable Ontology

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.”

Ifs Stills God Born Plans Difficulty Loving Family

Author:Joel Osteen

“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

Whole Funny Forget Focus Effects Cost Difficulty Mediums Producers Thoughtful Pool Publishing Blogs Blogging Bloggers

Author:Clay Shirky

“All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.”

Difficulty Gender Speakers

Author:Bernard Pivot

“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.”

Ifs Needs Government Jobs Faces Challenges Economy Tough Difficulty Ideology Free Market Small Government Tough Questions

Author:Lucy Powell

“I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.”

Writing Film Certain Literature My Own Cases Reader Difficulty Limitation Viewers Concentrating

Author:Manuel Puig

“One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.”

Hard My Friends Difficulty Lifestyle Live Life

Author:Sean Parker

“The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.”

Difficulty Alliances

Author:Eric Rohmer

“I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.”

Ifs Knows Long I Can Enough Challenges Rooms Possibility Difficulty Acknowledge Obsessed Overestimate

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.”

Situation Economic Difficulty Extremes Repeats Spain

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“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.”

Lying Moral Bears My Friends Difficulty Pressure Immediate Family

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.”

People Kind Wanted Faces Difficulty Albums Our Time

Author:Emeli Sande

“With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.”

Amount Safe Highest Difficulty Slavery Lays Routine Twists Flip Gymnastics Quentin Tarantino Django Django Unchained

Author:Jamie Foxx

“The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.”

Men He Man Degrees Difficulty

Author:Laura Wilkinson

“The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.”

Hands Choices Force Term Seeing Demand Sight Difficulty Various Invisible Chiefs Appeals Visible Live By Faith In God Sovereignty Sufficiency

Author:Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”

Self Benefits Tasks Importance Difficulty Buddhist Engaged Poison Encounters Inferiors Self-importance Succumbing

Author:Shantideva

“My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.”

Science Night Difficult Justice Powerful Cases Mankind Fairs Difficulty Dear Disappear Day And Night Dear Friend

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.”

Wells Realizing Difficulty Mood Discouraged Small Parts Bad Mood

Book:The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.”

Heart Difficulty Willingness

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.”

Source: Killosophy

“The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.”

Facts Able Personality Fit Difficulty Communicate Anxious Hypothesis Simplest Surviving Straightforward Being Straightforward

Author:Oliver Lodge

“I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.”

Knows Know How Difficulty Arise Doubtful Perplexed

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!”

Book Inspiration Faces Romance Difficulty Entertainment Comforting

Author:Debbie Macomber

“Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.”

Years Shows Together Struggle Magic Minutes Events Needed Years Ago Difficulty Corporate Tournaments My Struggle Magic Show

Author:Gary McCord

“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”

War Mankind Difficulty Agree Convinced Compromise Settling Resolution Anti War Antiwar Vietnam War Peace War Great War Win Win Horror Of War Arbitration

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.”

Writing Sometimes Emotional Difficulty Painful Details I Realized Therapy Sooner Or Later Autobiography Explaining Parts Of Life

Author:Jenni Rivera

“I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.”

Thinking Book Done Reader Difficulty I've Learned Departure

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

Ifs Trying Artist Values Turns Records Truth Is Difficulty Threat Photographer Selling Contradiction Gray Shade Cash Worn Shades Of Gray

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.”

People Feels Problem Deals Like You Abuse Difficulty Cancer

Author:Jason Isbell

“I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.”

“May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.”

Heart May Given Compassion Imagine My Heart Difficulty Asking Appropriate

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”

Sometimes Lying Belief Cities Wall Difficulty City Walls

Author:Rachel Hartman

“Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.”

Heart Soul Understanding Interest Difficulty Heart And Soul Compounds Compound Interest

Author:Charlie Munger

“No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.”

Knows Way Writing Matter Reason Light Sides Growth Situation Happened Stage Divine Higher Difficulty No Matter What Uplifting Serving Divine Light

Author:Barbara Rose

“A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.”

Community Capable Universal Difficulty Charity Reign

Book:A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley

Source: A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley

“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being”

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

Men Helping Difficulty Obstacles Facility

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.”

People World Should Country Energy Deals Economy Source Difficulty Critical Developing Deprived Prosperous Prosperous Country

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.”

Alive Morality Intellectual Difficulty Intellect

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.”

Easy Danger Please Benefits Tasks Difficulty Vulgar

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.”

Believe Eye Prayer Answers Situation Impossible Willing Difficulty Appearance Spite Believe In God Confirmation

Book:Mighty Prevailing Prayer

Source: Mighty Prevailing Prayer

“Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.”

Earth Spiritual Purpose Force Prayer Victory Difficulty Obstacles Accomplish Gods Will Satan Initiative Offensive Opposing Prevailing Prevailing Prayer

Author:Wesley L Duewel

“Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.”

Genius Difficulty Edges Oneself Acknowledge Recognizing

Book:Along the Path to Enlightenment

Source: Along the Path to Enlightenment

“Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are even in its class, difficulty-wise-and divorcing generally involves both of those as well. Even when you are the one initiating the divorce, the enormous changes that result are bound to throw you off and leave you feeling, at the very least, a bit lost.”

Wells Feelings Moving Lost Bits Loss Results Class Wise Events Difficulty Bounds Divorce Enormous Loved Ones Stressful Loss Of A Loved One Stressful Life

Author:Emily Doskow

“Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed.”

Should Mean Doe Attitude Accepting Worry Danger Changed Healthy Overcoming Difficulty Calm Careful Harm Anticipation Unnecessary Carefree Overcoming Worry Healthy Fear

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”

“No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet no other relationship can bring with it as many adjustments, difficulties and even hurts. There's no way you can avoid these difficulties; each couple's journey is unique. But there is much you can do to prepare for that journey. An engagement is not just a time of preparation for a wedding, but also preparation for a marriage.”

Way Humans Found Can Do Hurt Journey Couple Approach Unique Commitment Difficulty Oneness Intimacy Preparation Engagement Adjustment Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Dennis Rainey

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