Difficulty Quotes - Page 35

• The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

  William Dean Howells

  Self, Fame, Interest

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.2193, Delphi Classics

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• All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

  Philip Pullman

  Block, Writing, Doctors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

  William Osler

  Education, Hard Work, Science

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.73, Ravenio Books

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• Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Thinking, Breathing

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• Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Wise, Adversity, Errands

  Ardeth Greene Kapp (1987). “I Walk by Faith”, Shadow Mountain

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• The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Character, Adversity

  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.187

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• We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Struggle, Knowledge

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.211, e-artnow

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• The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Character, Winning, Names

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467

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• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Future, Science, Ideas

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• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.

  Pete Wilson

  Land, People, Growth

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• Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

  Richard G. Scott

  Adventure, Character, Adversity

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• Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.

  Michelangelo

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Perfection

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• It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Bible, Believe, Book

  "Difficulties In The Bible".

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• Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Understanding, Sorrow

  "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice".

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• Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wisdom, Reality, Loving Yourself

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• No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Motivational, Mistake

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

  Kuroda Nagamasa

  Art, War, Two

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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• If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Thrones, Lord

  Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “Hand Me Another Brick”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Children, Father

  David Jeremiah (2016). “Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.192, NavPress

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• We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Needs, Safe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Grief, Blessing

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• I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

  Gordon Moore

  Memories, Business, Technology

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