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“Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.”

Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

“The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.”

Dream Birth Difficulty

Book:It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set

Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set

“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”

Memories Music Magic Music Is Ears Difficulty Penetrate Facility Great Music Inspirational Music

Author:Thomas Beecham

“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”

Motivational Motivation Hero Difficulty Heroic Heroism Remembrance

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”

Joy Opportunity Pleasure Difficulty Technological Multiplying

Book:Christian Values and Virtues

Source: Christian Values and Virtues

“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.”

Pain Lying Desire Responsibility Accepting Behavior Consequence Difficulty Accepting Responsibility

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”

May Easy Difficult Difficulty Blame Faults Blaming Others Fault Finding

Author:Plutarch

“Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.”

“Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.”

Feels Faces Moving Honest Stupid Honesty Humility Difficulty Humble Being Honest Be Humble Honesty Inspirational

Book:Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

“Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.”

Culture Enemy Imagine Europe Difficulty Russia Nato

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”

Life Difficulty Excuse Sloth Pretext

Author:Quintilian

“South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.”

Together Nations Black White Path Difficulty South Profit Indian Revolutionary Colour Wealthy Elites South Africa Rainbow Segregation

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”

Ifs Long Known Journey Difficulty Long Journey

Author:Dan Rather

“Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.”

Reality Evil Literature Goodness Difficulty

Author:Anne Rice

“Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.”

Character Motivational Spiritual Form Growth Change Difficulty Improvement Hockey Crucible Starting Anew Awaken The Giant Within

Author:Tony Robbins

“The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.”

Humans Philosophy Dream Imagination Practice Dog Difficulty My Imagination Baskets Hares Human Imagination Great Imagination

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.”

Want Mean Use Impossible Difficulty Conquer Resolution Application

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”

Way Difficulty Best Way Cowboy

Author:Will Rogers

“Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

Inspirational Motivational Success Wish Successful Positive Hard Work Easier Self Improvement Difficulty Encouragement Harder Obstacles Improvement Self Motivation Motivated Daily Motivation Great Work Wish You Work Harder Push Yourself Positive Motivation Betterment Famous Inspirational Motivational Success Hardwork Hardworking Motivational Sales Inspirational Success Best Success Being A Better Person Motivational Work Greatest Success Inspirational Sales Cool Motivational Sales Team Great Sales Sales Team Motivational Hard Work Success Hard Work Comes Success Inspired To Work Greatest Sales Hard Work Motivational Inspirational Hard Work Keep You Motivated Motivation And Hard Work Work Place All Time Best Hard Work And Success Self Motivated Inspiring Yourself Successful Work Greatest Motivational Inspiring Sales Money Motivation Chasing Success Business Sales Journey To Success Workplace Motivation Wish You The Best I Wish You The Best

Author:Jim Rohn

“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”

Problem Light Path Greatness Difficulty Shining Moving On Dawn Resolve Proceeding Famous Inspirational Clearness

Author:Jim Rohn

“My difficulties belong to me!”

Author:Alfred Adler

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

“The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.”

Growth Interest Decision Higher Taxes Difficulty Rate Recovery Usa Jobless Inflation Interest Rate Sluggish

Author:Karl Rove

“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”

Ifs World Writing Different Ends Sometimes Stories Together Given Ability Conflict Difficulty Accidents

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.”

Knows Writing Years Two Ideas Hard Used Three Found Opinion Know How Week New York Months Difficulty Extremes Columns New York Times Columnists Syndicate

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Reason Film Literature Given Reader Difficulty China Instance Chinese

Author:Salman Rushdie

“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.”

People World Has Beens Whole Stuff Taught Limits Difficulty Range Examining Muslim World

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”

Trying Break Difficulty Encouragement Encounters Contradiction Gentleness Around The Bend

Book:Spiritual maxims

Source: Spiritual maxims

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

Ideas Education Difficulty

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.”

Thinking Ideas Home House My Own Wife Masters Theory Husband Authority Difficulty Ill Details Pairs My Husband Arrangements Precise Submission Matched Methodical

Book:Annie Besant: An Autobiography

Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography

“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.”

Trying Education Teach Teacher Difficulty Being True Multitudes Untrue Unfaithful

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.”

Writing Moments Dark Subjects Difficulty Critical Landscape Modernism Illuminating Lucidity

Author:Will Self

“Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.”

Overcoming Difficulty

Author:Ernest Shackleton

“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.”

Two Team Love You Elements Respect Difficulty Affection Coexist Reunited Reuniting

Author:Shakira

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”

Men Inspirational Wells Self Motivational Difficult Loses Respect Difficulty Motherhood Crafts Self Respect Difficult Things

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”

Running Age Time Youth Difficulty Aging Old Age Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Beverly Sills

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”

Sorrow Discovery Difficulty Adversity Invention Length Hardship Great Inventions

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.”

Men Has Beens Done Suffering Work Duty Difficulty Inspired Trials Shore Tides Exhausted Tidy Greatest Man

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr

“For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.”

Giving Firsts Wells Reason Problem Poor Benefits Difficulty Educational Debt Income Extras Addresses Pounds Breakdown Poor Health

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.”

Mean Different Accepting Difficulty Merit Defining Judicial Different Experiences

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.”

Use Speak Parent Simple Serious Difficulty Adversity Financial Illness Unexpected Hardship Tested Constraints Serious Illness Financial Hardship

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.”

Thinking Character Shows Audience Media Television Keys Difficulty Opening Narrative Divides Pathways Television Shows Gamer Opening Up Interactive

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.”

Men Desire Difficulty Tongue Speakers Moderates

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”

Men Happiness Success Difficulty Stewardship Grandeur

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7

“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.”

Stills Faces Choices Three Results Lord Source Tests Difficulty Dues Satan

Author:Charles Stanley

“I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.”

People Needs Years Stills Two Shows Past Areas Concerned Difficulty Two Years Evident Jubilee

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

Writing Mean Book Literature Wish Reader Difficulty

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.”

People Seems Individual Poverty Difficulty Workers Obvious Debt Harm Unemployed

Author:James Surowiecki