Difficulty Quotes

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

To fly, we have to have resistance.
Maya Lin

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

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

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

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.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was
Walt West

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.
Jane Jacobs

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
Friedrich August von Hayek

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
Dirk Benedic

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.







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