Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
Joseph Conrad
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.
Samuel Smiles
It is better to deny God, than to defy God. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. To profess to be a lover of God and then to be dishonest to God, to the world and to himself, is unparalleled hypocrisy. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
Meher Baba
Man achieves in life only by commanding the capabilities nature has given him, or by creating them within himself by education and by knowing how to profit by the difficulties encountered.
Napolon Bonaparte
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
Honor de Balzac
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Self-hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of it.
Moran Margaret Cho
The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves
Sri Chinmoy
For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered
Mira Komarovsky
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Alice Miller
I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.
Judd Nelson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Julia Cameron