In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More
Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.
Jane Jacobs
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, Aprll, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Mark Twain
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore
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 greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson