Difficulty Quotes - Page 6

• The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Lust, Deceit

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I have had to learn the simplest things
  last. Which made for difficulties.

  Charles Olson

  Lasts, Made, Simplest

  Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• A difficulty for every solution.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Solutions

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• In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Positive, Being Strong

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• You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

  Thomas Perry

  Lying, Book, Character

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Struggle

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, People, Energy

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

  Claude Monet

  Crazy, Weather, Atmosphere

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• My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.

  Michelangelo

  Support, Heaven, Beard

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• Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Running, Inspiration

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• Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  Lionel Trilling

  Literature, Possibility, Complexity

  1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.

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• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Happiness, Success, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Use, Want

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• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

  Alice James

  Funny, Death, Dying

  Alice James (1981). “The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence”, Berkeley : University of California Press

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• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, Two, Political

  Letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale on January 01, 1867. "The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, p. 77, 1880.

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• Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

  Jeremy Collier

  Giving, Way, Pushing

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• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Success, Pain

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.101

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• A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Men, Feelings

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The American Senator”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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• We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

  Abram L. Sachar

  Privilege

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• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Wisdom, Time

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Tongue

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• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
  Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivation, Learning

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.105, Chinese University Press

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