Best difficulty & doe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“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

“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.”

World Needs Doe Art Soul Hands Cities Art Is Difficulty Variety Permit Proliferation

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.”

Doe Use Wind Higher Difficulty Wings Spread Storm Lifts Eagles

Author:Jack White

“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.”

People Doe Hard Young Choices Difficulty Competition Profession Chess Etc Occupation Hobbies

Author:Boris Spassky

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Wells Doe Motivational Forever Difficulty Notes Careful Take Care Bother Climbing Summit Why Bother

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.”

Men World Doe Ends Whole Christ Existence Wonderful Mystery Difficulty Accepted Whole World Explanation Grants Rejected Enigma

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”

Giving Long Doe Done Helping Running Past Sin Answers Hell Objects Cost Difficulty Asking Forgiving Doctrine Offering Long Runs Forgiven Alas Miraculous Wipe Fresh Start Calvary Asking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.”

Doe Art Felt Difficulty Unhappy

Author:Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

“This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.”

Doe Facts Problem Law Land Capitalism Difficulty Stronger Fundamentals Ignorant Rough Capitalist Catastrophe Subtlety Settlement Diplomatic Counterparts Finesse American Capitalism

Author:James P. Cannon

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.”

Want Doe Done Enough Faces Strong Wish Can Do Effort Needed Difficulty Asking Alternatives Strong Enough

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

“In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.”

“You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.”

Knows Mean Doe Night Energy Minutes Politician Difficulty Enjoyment Relaxation

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.”

“The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.”

Doe Stills Matter Problem Difficult Trouble Difficulty Insects Robes Crawling Caterpillars Christening

Author:Opal Whiteley

“I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?”

People Want Doe Millions Difficulty Alternatives

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”

Ifs Doe Self Memories Chance Mines Judgment Tools Difficulty Presses Judgement Confused Encounters Lacking Embarrassed Distrust Stunned Chance Encounters

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Doe Opportunity Given Ready Giving Up Difficulty Perseverance Encounters Prime Given Up Keep Trying Prime Of Life

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.”

Life Humans Heart Doe Helping Pain Progress Strength Goes On Findings Devil Difficulty Midst Division Human Heart Gang Rivalry Deep Within Life Goes On

Author:Pope Francis

“I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.”

Believe Doe Gains Overcoming Difficulty Stronger Maturity Who We Are Good And Bad Old Saying Makes You Stronger

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.”

Doe Behinds Determination Essence Performances Difficulty Sticks Teeth Vow

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability”

“I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.”

Ifs Knows Trying Doe Problem Joy Records Pieces Difficulty Albums Dimensions

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.”

Men Doe Leadership Difficulty Increase Acquire

Author:Dominique Sutton

“An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.”

Men Doe Opinion Devil Difficulty Errors Casts Possessed Obstinate

Author:Samuel Butler

“The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.”

Mean Doe Effort Progress Conditions Flower Difficulty Plant Finest Adjustment

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...

“An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.”

Doe Reader Difficulty Damage

Author:Evariste Galois

“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.”

Knows Way Mind Persons Doe Ends Done Given Objects Circumstances Beats Difficulty Sticks Excuse Accomplish

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.”

People Ifs Long Doe Matter Enough Facts Lying Difficulty Accepted Bolsheviks

Book:Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948

Source: Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948

“Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.”

Knows Mind Doe Process Truth Is Commitment Difficulty Sufficient

Book:Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Source: Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

“God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. [and love and awareness and hope! -EM]”

Ifs Wells Doe Law Joy Purpose Energy Deals Grace Teacher Awareness Lessons And Love Difficulty Karma Punishment Manifestation Encounters Ems Misused Energy Of Life

Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet

“The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?”

Doe Play Games Difficult Failing Ten Baseball Difficulty Seven Plates Superstar

Author:Goose Gossage

“Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.”

Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

“The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.”

Persons Doe Christian Leadership Vision Possibility Inspire Difficulty Spiritual Leadership

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”

Men Needs Doe Desire Cutting Difficulty Assurance Renewal Worthiness

Book:The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.”

Doe Stills Matter Grief Morning Forever Stones My Family Difficulty Does It Matter

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.”

Ifs Writing Doe Artist Enemy Talent Wall Overcoming Difficulty Suicide Soldier Fallen Contemplating Reflecting Gallery Fling Trenches Miners Yawning Craters

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.”

Doe Problem Would Be Humanity Growth Interesting Progress Groups Rocks Achievement Difficulty Personal Growth Streams Concrete Curves

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Doe Motivation Knowledge Learning Training Difficulty Mindset Frustrated Appease Chinese Philosopher Deep Life

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.”

People Mean Doe Sometimes Hard Reality Inspiration Might Running Action Leadership Company Situation Inspire Difficulty Running Away Great Leader Great Leadership Hard Truths

Author:John P. Kotter

“You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.”

Looks Doe God Action Jesus Greatness Difficulty Saint Our Actions

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.”

Mind Doe Courses Terrible Balls Difficulty Golf Sunday Swings Decay Blank Vacuums Spray Wednesday Berserk Blank Mind

Author:John Updike

“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”

Doe Funny Death Fun Dying Difficulty Fellows

Book:The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

Source: The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”

“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”

Knows Doe Science Nature Existence Claims Difficulty Resistance Spite Vacuums

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

“Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.”

Knows Littles Doe Book Science Hurt Knowledge Reader Difficulty Worthwhile Concealing

Author:Evariste Galois

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