Difficulty Quotes

To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.
Dr. David Schwartz

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Marsha Sinetar

It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties
C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
Charles Swindoll

Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach.

When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men.
Samuel Warren

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas PĖre

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
W. Averell Harriman

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Albert Camus:

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck:

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.
Norbert Capek

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

I can resist everything except temptation.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.







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