Difficulty Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Topics, Sometimes

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• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Lying, Responsibility

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

  Hugh Prather

  Honesty, Stupid, Moving

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.46, Conari Press

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• I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

  Eli Whitney

  Respect, Rights, Should Have

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• I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

  Brad Paisley

  Real, Guitar, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

  George MacDonald

  Choices, Literature, Wells

  George MacDonald (2015). “SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)”, p.217, e-artnow

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• I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Would Be, Conflict, Protest

  "Die Reden des Ministerpräsidenten von Bismarck-Schönhausen im Preußischen Landtage 1862-1865". Book by Horst Kohl, 1903.

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• The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

  Maimonides

  Desire, Unnecessary Things, Possession

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

  Michael Caine

  Use, Ifs

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• The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Exercise, Intellectual, Influence

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, Reality, Roots

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• Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.

  Jarome Iginla

  Growing Up, Team, Kids

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• True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

  Jerome Groopman

  Path, Realistic, Better Future

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• When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Melting, Ascent

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• The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Gentleman, Ten

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• New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

  Mao Zedong

  Grows, New Things, Setback

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• It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Giving, Joy, Divine

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• The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.

  Ada Lovelace

  Dwelling, Illustration, Giving

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• With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

  Ada Lovelace

  Country, Ink And Paper, Government

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• I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

  Fabio Capello

  People, League, Progress

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• A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Thinking, Spirit

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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• Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens called a 'mundo' and it takes a lot of time to orientate oneself in such a world. What we have to learn to do then, as teachers and militants of a poetic insurgency, is to encourage people to learn to love the difficulty of poetry. I simply do not understand much of the poetry that I love.

  Simon Critchley

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

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• Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

  Alan Coren

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.118, Canongate Books

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• Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

  Francis Galton

  Hate, Cutting, Men

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)

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