Difficult- Difficulty Quotes

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, A poet, a pawn and a king; I’ve been up and down and over and out, And I know one thing; Each time I find myself flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race.

Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

Trials, temptations, disappointments – all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was […]

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.