Home / Topics / Difficulty Quotes

Difficulty Quotes

Browse 2667 quotes about Difficulty.

Difficulty Quotes

“Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.”

Should Joy Loses Wonder Special Criticism Overcoming Difficulty Praise Adversity Charm Opposition Meant To Be Coming Out Things Are Meant To Be

Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”

Giving Should Writing Names Difficult Special Doctors Difficulty Profession Block Writer's Block Plumber

Author:Philip Pullman

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”

“"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."”

Source: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…

“The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.”

Source: True Education

“I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way.”

Men Way Should Mind Made Facts Belief Secret Universal Difficulty Lays Unity Inspired Unlimited Demonstration Unlimited Power

Author:Walter Russell

“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.”

“I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

“To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.”

Knows Should May Reason Light Science Knowledge Research Fairs Criticism Difficulty Gates Inches Up And Down Reproach Adverse Investigators Recoil Wisps

Author:William Crookes

“The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.”

Ifs Should Littles Two Book Moments Science Three Clear Conditions Criticism Difficulty Holes Unnecessary Three Times Variation Loaded Objections Adopting Little Moments

Author:Thomas Huxley

“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”

Should School Women Black Teach Decided Difficulty Flying African American Aviation Pilots Black Women Famous Women Aviator

Author:Bessie Coleman

“I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.”

Should Has Beens Ideas Should Have Difficulty Glad Theology Acquire Hinduism Should Have Been

Book:The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]

Source: The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]

“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”

Men Should Real Individual Force Teacher Influence Teaching Difficulty Pressure All Time Psychics Sage Elementals Baffled

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

“In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.”

Should Writing Kind Ideas Class Middle Fit Difficulty Obvious Passing Passings Middle Class Representatives Bias Discouraged Planned Parenthood

Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.”

Should Looks Political Views Party Situation Higher Difficulty Relation Foundation China Point Of View Preserves Ties Japan Statesmen China And Japan

Author:Wu Bangguo

“"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Should Wells Truth Spiritual Suffering Fall Poor Levels Worry Struggle Too Much Praying Sorrow Despair Difficulty Expected Trust In God Rejoice Spiritual Life

Author:Seraphim Rose

“Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.”

Source: The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran

“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”

Ifs Should Whole Remember Values Easy Keys Degrees Difficulty Method Investment Complexes Endure Investing Factors Alternatives Dependent Investors Shifting Variables Diving Payoff

Author:Warren Buffett

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

“Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.”

Should Turns Opportunity Resources Difficulty Endure Trials Introducing Inward Invoke Submerged

Author:Epictetus

“The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.”

Source: Sammlung

“Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.”

Should Trying Law Deals Economic Higher Politician Difficulty Employment Minimum Wages Wizards Minimum Wage Repealing

Book:The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life

Source: The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life

“Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.”

Giving Should Problem Faces Opportunity Difficulty Errors Refuse Karma Thanks No Problem Shortcomings

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”

Should Hard Difficult Can Do Education Stupid Masters Fool Tasks Difficulty Mathematics Fellows Math Tricks Surprising Considering Tedious Being Myself

Book:Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

Source: Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

“Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow.”

Should Ends Winning Grows Failing Difficulty You Can Win Afraid To Fail

Author:Michio Kushi

“Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.”

Ifs Should Looks May Has Beens Done Difficult Painting Difficulty

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.”

Life Should Running Actors Stars Easy Difficult Trouble Office Difficulty Movie Movie Star Millionaire Easy To Get

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.”

Ifs Life Should Trying May Suffering Difficult Cities Conditions Periods Quiet Difficulty Pressure Rate Bounds Experiments Pace Strain Moderates Fatigue Gears

Author:Robert McCracken

“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”

Should Easy Loses Challenges Despair Sight Difficulty Obstacles African American Neglect Presumption Utter Despair

Author:Benjamin Banneker