Difficulty Quotes

“One question that has challenged me for some 50 years, is where did Ali “retire” after parting with Wallace in Singapore in 1862? Did he return to his home in Sarawak? Did he return to the spice island of Ternate, where Wallace said he had a family?”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“There can be no success without difficulty because otherwise everyone would be equally successful and it wouldn't be called success. There must be the challenge, the discipline, the fortitude that is only developed and forged in fire.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“It is the experience of the struggle that backlights the moments of wonder so that wonder might not be mistaken for something less than wonder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from perfect, they didn't really like it that much.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“it's difficult to let go of the person you care about the most. But now I find him, it's even harder to hold the memory of a person who doesn't care about you in the way you hopped.”
― Carmen Rosales, He Loves Me

“Swim through tsunami like the sea is your empire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“You can't fight the tide, you either surf or sink.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“The soft scent of freshly fallen leaves tenderly permeated a forest ignited to a flaming brilliance with sizzling reds, burning oranges, and electric yellows. Yet in the midst of all of the riotous beauty the forest suddenly fell still and entirely silent. And in that moment it seemed that autumn paused in a sort of solemn reverence where it fondly recalled the leaves of summer that had set the stage for the glory of fall, while the slumber of winter would animate the buds of spring. And standing there I wondered if we should not take a moment to reflect on the fact that a season might be dark but it is only a chapter, never a story.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies, and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“You need to get over this. You’re not the only one who has faced hardships and trials. Yours may be different than the rest of ours but each of us have horrors in our past. Holding onto this anger will do nothing but poison you against any good that might come of your situation.”
― T.A. White, Moonlight's Ambassador

“The difficulty can be overcome by divine power.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Don't get discouraged in times of difficulties.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When we face adversity, it is hope that gives us the confidence to rally our indomitable spirit to overcome it.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Difficulty keeps solutions; impossibility does not.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“You must have dauntless hope to take actions to overcome any difficulty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Praying to be saved from danger,
Ain't no spineless coward I.
Let all the dangers hail my way,
Each crisis is like a trip to Hawaii.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“A day is never just a day, for despite how difficult and frequently dark they might be, some sort of blessing is set deep in each of them. And the blessing that we can hold onto every day is that the blessing set deep in us can only be held at bay for just so long.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes I think things would be a lot easier to deal with if I didn’t think so damn much.”
― Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok

“Doing the hard thing even at the expense of comfort and immediate happiness does not make the Christian life one of perpetual misery. In following God through difficulty, we find real joy instead of its superficial substitute, happiness.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“There's times when you have to keep a deep knowing to yourself so others around you can find the teachings in a thing. Those of us who can see know that, but the hard part is letting others go through it. While it hurts to watch them deal with hurt, you know that you still have to let them, that it's a gift, that it's a teaching way.”
― Richard Wagamese, Ragged Company

“It's just... something being difficult is not a good reason not to do it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“By acknowledging and preparing for adversity, you will forge your ambition in the fires of difficulty, ensuring that your dreams are not easily extinguished.”
― Kevin L. Michel, Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual

“Tears make us tenacious,
Hindrance makes us humble.
Mockery makes us mindful,
Treachery makes incorruptible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Difficulties of today are freeway to the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.”
― Hippocrates, Aphorisms

“When we are dealt a difficult hand of cards and find ourselves hitting a wall after having tried every tool in the tool chest, sometimes all we can do is sit in the pain and surrender. It’s in the surrender that we may just meet a peace that transcends our understanding.”
― Camille Block, Hope For Secondhand Suffering: Tools For The Heart When You Can't Fix Your Loved One's Pain

“A burden of transient gains weighs down her steps
And hardly under that load can she advance;
But the hours cry to her, she travels on
Passing from thought to thought, from want to want;
Her greatest progress is a deepened need.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Life is not about avoiding the storm, it's about how you dance with the music of the storm.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in which a hard-working, serious young woman like myself cannot obtain, without enormous difficulty, expense, or infliction of pain on others, a quiet, clean, pleasant room in which she can work, dream her dreams, write out her thoughts, and keep her few treasures in peace.”
― Catherine Carswell, The Camomile

“If you don’t have moments where it feels like a nightmare, then what your pursuing is not a dream.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough