Top 100 It Is Not Easy Quotes
#1. A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
Steve Harvey
#2. Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.
George MacDonald
#3. Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
Michael Leunig
#4. It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.
Marie Brennan
#5. It is not easy to recognize, the talent of the individual who contributes to the lives of others by sharing a natural gift in everyday life.
Lydia Clar
#6. It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved.
Isa Bowman
#7. God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!
Louis Evely
#8. It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#10. Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
Sophie Swetchine
#11. If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#12. It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the Creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I look once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men.
Kent Nerburn
#13. It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
Paul Samuelson
#14. We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.
John Kasich
#15. It is not easy for church members, who for years have been complacent and satisfied in their religious habits, to admit something vital may have been missing from their religion. Norman
Don Basham
#16. It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.
David F. D'Alessandro
#17. You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery ... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe
believed
that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.
Michael Moorcock
#18. It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.
Aleksis Kivi
#19. I think it is not easy to impress a girl, especially with the looks that I have. It is quite tough.
Dhanush
#20. The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
Ann Romney
#21. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
Naveen Andrews
#22. Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Pericles
#24. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
#25. In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#26. A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
George R R Martin
#27. The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method. But
G.K. Chesterton
#28. Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#29. No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
Boyd K. Packer
#30. It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. ... It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.
Spencer W. Kimball
#31. It is not easy to express the inexpressible, he answered with a laugh.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#32. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.
Samuel Johnson
#34. But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love?"
"There are people with whom it is not easy to live, but whom it is impossible to leave.
Thomas Mann
#35. Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
Katarina Witt
#36. Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
Assata Shakur
#37. It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
Charles Dickens
#38. Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Samuel Johnson
#39. And the most extraordinary thing is that, in the end, as you grow older, you continue to go poop once a day if you are in good health, while it is not easy to make love every day. So finally, the pleasure is longer-lasting and more frequent than the other.
Guy Fournier
#40. This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.
Luis Federico Leloir
#41. If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.
Sun Tzu
#42. It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#43. It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
Dorothy Day
#44. Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.
David Kwang-sun Suh
#45. They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it
when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself.
It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.
Marcella Purnama
#46. It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
Henri De Regnier
#47. For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
Pete Sampras
#48. It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
Aristotle.
#49. I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
Ed Koch
#50. There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.
Vincent Van Gogh
#51. The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it is not easy, but you can come out of it and help someone else.
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#52. Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
Marie Of Romania
#53. I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.
Jean Alesi
#54. It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Victor Hugo
#55. If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.
Micha Bar-Am
#56. Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
Im Dong-Hyun
#57. Sometimes it is not easy to find any words that properly convey a thought. When we hear or read, we usually remember the gist, not the exact words, so there has to be such a thing as a gist that is not the same as a bunch of words.
Steven Pinker
#59. No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
Clarice Lispector
#60. It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#61. Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
Henri Nouwen
#62. You don't understand," I said, growing irritated. "I don't have the slightest idea what the Lethani really is! It's not a path, but it helps choose a path.It's the simplest way,but it is not easy to see.
Honestly,you people sound like drunk cartographers.
-Kvothe
Patrick Rothfuss
#63. It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
Bill Vaughan
#64. It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.
Ariana Reines
#65. It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.
Sulari Gentill
#66. You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
George Orwell
#67. It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
Caroline Kennedy
#68. It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames
#69. It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.
Rose Bird
#70. It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.
Robert Kiyosaki
#71. For when religion is once established you may readily bring in arms; but where you have arms without religion it is not easy afterwards to bring in religion. We
Niccolo Machiavelli
#72. Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
#73. It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.
Tom Upton
#74. It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
John W. Gardner
#75. It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.
Michael Scott
#76. Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.
James MacDonald
#77. There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.
Cassandra Clare
#78. It is not easy for example to surgically remove a delusion
Jostein Gaarder
#79. It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.
Calvin Coolidge
#80. We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
Hayao Miyazaki
#81. It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
Hafez
#82. It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal
#83. Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#84. It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
Carroll Quigley
#85. It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.
Narendra Modi
#86. It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#87. It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.
Jose Carreras
#88. It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.
Vincent De Paul
#89. It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society
Dele Momodu
#90. It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
Sharon Kay Penman
#91. It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,
Vladimir Nabokov
#92. It is not easy to free
myth from reality
or rear this fellow up
to lutch, lurch with them
in the tranced dancing of men.
Earle Birney
#93. It is not easy to stand at the bar of public opinion and receive the verdict of condemnation; but what will it be to stand at the bar of God who is greater than all, and to receive from him the sentence of damnation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#94. It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#95. It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.
Anne O'Brien
#97. For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.
Lee Smith
#98. It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it.
- Shaw's Preface
George Bernard Shaw
#99. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.
Billy Graham
#100. It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
Jean Rostand