Difficulty Quotes

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George A. Moore

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Samuel Smiles

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Vladimir Putin

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

Frank Harris

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

James A. Garfield

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

William Bennett

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anne Rice

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Edgar Degas

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

This has only succeeded in buying time against an increasingly dangerous threat. The difficulty in destroying this threat lies in the fact that our efforts will not be enough to overcome the fundamental causes of the phenomenon -- poverty, alienation, disaffection and ethnic hatreds deeply rooted in history.

George Tenet

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus

The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

Samuel Johnson