Difficult Quotes - Page 6

• Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Deep Life, Firsts, Take A Deep Breath

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.19, Conari Press

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• I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

  Blair Underwood

  New York, Business, Thinking

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• There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

  Bernard Hopkins

  People, Boxing, Work Out

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• The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Possible And Impossible, Littles, Achieving The Impossible

  Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Strength, Meaningful, Heart

  Letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, on May 30, 1877. "Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh" by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 26, 1995.

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• Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

  Michael Leunig

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.131, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Courage, Admitting

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.239, Penguin

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• Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
  We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

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• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Running, Believe

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Perfect, Worry

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• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  Natalie Wood

  Attention, Constant

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• The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

  Amy Sillman

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• It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

  Georges Courteline

  Painful, Still In Love, Stills

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• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  Irving Babbitt

  Failure, Important, Achieve

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• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  Blaise Pascal

  Advice, Matter, Way

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• The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

  Simone Weil

  Morning, War, Eight

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• Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Desire, Causes

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

  Billy Graham

  May, Tests, Way

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• There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Doubt, Stills

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• For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

  Epicurus

  Impossible, Have Confidence, Concealment

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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