Difficulty Quotes - Page 31

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

  Book, Heart, Telephones

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• I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Knights, Difficult Situations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Lying, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3718, Manonmani Publishers

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• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Home, Building Up, Democracy

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

  John Updike

  Believe, Winning, History

  Rabbit, Run (1960) p. 160

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• One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."

  James Keller

  Business, Heart, Pride

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• One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupid, Learning, Prejudice

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.255, John Wiley & Sons

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• Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Today, Fruit

  Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

  Louie Giglio

  Christian, Passion, Goal

  Louie Giglio (2014). “PASSION: The Bright Light of Glory”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

  Prince Charles

  World, Today, Faces

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• What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Heart, Order

  "Holistic Politics: A Conversation with Marianne Williamson". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 1999.

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• Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Deep Thought, Faces

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2012

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• It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Freedom, Men, Able

  "Address on University Education" (1876)

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• Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

  Jim Rohn

  Happiness, Sadness, Play

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• Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

  David Wallace

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

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• There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Learning, Want

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• Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Cancer, America

  "At the End of the Day, Diversity Has Jumped the Shark". humanevents.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, People, Perfect

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.

  Robin Morgan

  Mean, Men, White

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Men, White Man, People

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.

  Matthew Polly

  Heart, Feelings, Emotion

  Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.20, Penguin

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• The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

  Sengcan

  Path, Picking And Choosing, Ultimate

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• Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

  Austin O'Malley

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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