Difficulty Quotes

“With tears of joy, I recalled Fat Mary’s role in my childhood. She had been my consoler and counselor since the day I understood I was alone in the world and had no one who loved me or wanted me. I had decided back then that I would love me, fat me, just as I was. Her role was also to safeguard the meaningful and happy moments of my childhood and bring them to me when I needed to remember life’s goodness.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“When my depression turned to anger, I knew I was on the way to recovery.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“Her hand touched his hardness "You're a big boy," she said, playfully."Had no complaints," replied Simon.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“Ninety-eight per cent of cross-eyed teachers have difficulty controlling their pupils.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Gags and Extracts

“Simon closed his mind to the past because of the pain of losing it and the future for fear of facing it.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“I find nothing so singular in life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

“The only difference is how they’ve chosen to perceive it; where one woman sees adversity and difficulty , Katrín sees advantage and opportunity.”
― Ben Bergeron, Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes

“A second way we can use a journal is to practice expressing gratitude for the positive things in our life, no matter what the source. This can include writing about things that our family, friends, or colleagues have given us or done for us, or even the difficulties and challenges we’ve come through.”
― Noel Brick, Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything

“Elite athletes know something that most people don’t—adversity is the best thing that can happen to you. The competitors here at the Games know that humans only improve through adversity by embracing short-term pain. Ensuring there is no struggle, no challenge, and staying in your wheelhouse is a recipe for spinning your wheels without improving. It’s the days when you have to do things that scare you, when you have to take risks, when you have to push against challenge and difficulty—those are the days that make you stronger, faster, and better overall.”
― Ben Bergeron, Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes

“Piece of seven-layer cake.”
― Cookie O'Gorman, Cupcake

“Sometimes it has been rather hard to live, but I think not harder—as to that—than many people find it.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“Our life difficulty has a story and a cause. Most of the time we are trapped in the story unable to see the cause”
― Kambiz Shabankare

“Difficulties only add value to a dream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“The most problematic mistakes are the ones that we refuse to admit.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She wanted to give up but she knew that is not who she was born as. She was born a phoenix and she will rise again and become what she was supposed to be. Herself.”
― Dania Irshad, Anguished Existence

“Hitters talk constantly about “being uncomfortable .” They should not be seduced by the “feeling” of comfort. Behavior is the key, and it is when faced with adversity — situations or “slumps” — that we are all most in touch with what is the greater value to us: being given what we want or working persistently and effectively to get what we want. Baseball won’t develop character, but adversity in the game will surely reveal it. To develop yourself as a hitter and a person, you must face difficulty with intelligence and courage. Many in the game call it “character,” and I’ve heard managers, coaches, and scouts say “character is destiny.”
― H.A. Dorfman, The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement

“When your purpose is simply to be the most high-functioning and joyful version of you that you can be, then every moment can be an opportunity to fulfill your purpose, and the journey becomes so much more exciting. You now have your purpose no matter what. Even the difficulties become more manageable when we are committed to expressing the truth of who we are.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“One thing that works, and it’s something I can do even while alone in the car: I can pray for my enemies. Jesus told us to do it. Difficulty level: 10.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“Do not get discouraged in any difficulty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein

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In the difficulties lie no chances. You just bear and face that with the willpower to overcome.
-Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“In any difficulty, do not lose hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Controlling our thoughts is one of the most difficult things we can do because the mind, left to its own devices, has that crazy way of randomly jumping from one thought to the next.”
― Dee Waldeck

“Life has been here all along, however, some of us insist on making it difficult which is an abomination to us all.”
― Wazim Shaw

“Acknowledge the truth of the difficulties, thank the person, and focus on a positive future.”
― William Ury, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes

“No matter the difficulty you faced, don't kill yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Do not be disturbed nor downcast when faced with difficulty but pray for divine help.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

“Colonel Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters from news services around the world arrive!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two