Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...
Only entropy comes easy.
Bumps are the things we climb on.
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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