Quotes of Difficulty - somelinesforyou

“ Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. ”

- Epictetus

“ You would think four years after 9/11 with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government. ”

- Susan Collins

“ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Difficulties are things that show what men are. ”

- Epictetus

“ Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ It is difficulties that give birth to miracles. ”

- Dr. Sharpe

“ Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. ”

- W. P. Scargill

“ I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ”

- Michael Crichton

“ None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. ”

- Bible

“ Racism is a White attitudinal problem. ”

- Jane Elliott

“ There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. ”

- Robert Reich

“ Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. ”

- Lance Loud

“ There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ It's very difficult to ignore caring disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ”

- Cat Stevens

“ Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. ”

- Richard Feynman

“ Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement. ”

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“ Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. ”

- Herbert Hoover

“ The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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