Difficulty Quotes

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

Edward W. Howe

A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Kossuth

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

Livy

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

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

Hannah More

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.

F. W. Nichol

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ronald E. Osborn

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.

Charles E. Popplestone

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Jim Rohn

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

Abram Sacher

For every mountain there is a miracle.

Robert H. Schuller

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Barbara Sher

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Bear the inevitable with dignity.

Streckfuss

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

Difficulties are stepping stones to success.

Unknown

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

Unknown