Difficult Things Quotes - Page 11

• The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Decision, Acting

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Thinking, May, Lasts

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Couple, Wish, Language

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• No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2405, e-artnow

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• It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

  Sting

  Song, Writing, Easy

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• And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Nice, Taken

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• What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

  Robin McKinley

  What If, Tasks, Use

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• Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

  Flann O'Brien

  Country, Moderation, Difficult

  Flann O’Brien (2016). “Best of Myles (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

  Daniel Handler

  Regret, Thinking, Years

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• There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Secret, World, Difficult

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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Heart, Waiting

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1983). “Meet Yourself in the Psalms”, Victor

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• One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

  E. W. Howe

  Cost, World, Difficult

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• Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

  John Cassavetes

  Mean, Artist, People

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Thumbs

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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• Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Sight, Upset, Sometimes

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

  Gena Showalter

  People, World, Difficult

  Gena Showalter (2006). “Oh My Goth”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

  R. D. Laing

  Book, Perfect One, Race

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

  T. H. White

  Funny, Patience, Humor

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Thinking, Heaven

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Fashion, Simple

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• I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Thinking, Voice, Air

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