Top 100 Most Difficult Quotes
#1. In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.
Meyer's Law
John D. MacDonald
#2. The trick to not getting mired in the past and missing out on the future lies solely in our ability to let go and move on, yet this seems to be the most difficult thing in the world for most people (including myself) to do.
Mandy Hale
#3. It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
Vladimir Kramnik
#4. Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.
Tonny K. Brown
#5. As for the play itself, it is perhaps the most popular and well-known of all Shakespeare's works and is also the longest and arguably the most difficult to understand.
William Shakespeare
#6. If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.
Neal A. Maxwell
#7. Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.
Robert Baden-Powell
#8. The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents' house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#9. Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.
Christian Louboutin
#10. But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
Brian Epstein
#11. The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
Simon Winchester
#12. The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.
Leonard Bloomfield
#13. Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
Hill Harper
#14. The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
Robert Wise
#15. Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
Robert Breault
#16. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. Gods ... Nico. Over the past few days, every time Jason sacrificed a portion of a meal to Jupiter, he prayed to his dad to help Nico. That kid had gone through so much, and yet he had volunteered for the most difficult job: transporting the Athena Parthenos statue to Camp Half-Blood.
Rick Riordan
#18. Liz Taylor was an amazing woman and screen legend. She was an incredible friend to my brother, at his side through some of his most difficult times and of course loved by his children and our family. She will live on in our hearts forever, my prayers go out to her family.
LaToya Jackson
#19. The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.
Murray Leinster
#20. Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath
#21. Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When
Rene Girard
#22. In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.
Martin Jacques
#23. What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.
Billy Graham
#24. To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
Irving Babbitt
#25. Opinionated writing is always the most difficult ... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.
Gavin Lyall
#26. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
#27. The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.
Neil Jordan
#28. Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.
And eaten their dinners.
Brandon Sanderson
#29. Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Haruki Murakami
#30. One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!
Carlos Wallace
#31. In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
Epictetus
#32. If God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.
Mark Batterson
#33. The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Henry Miller
#34. I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.
Mika.
#35. The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Alvar Aalto
#36. Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
Samina Baig
#37. It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.
Solomon Ortiz
#38. Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
Rajneesh
#39. Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult.
Debasish Mridha
#41. For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Let me tell you a few truths about being a stepmother you won't read in any self-help books or get from a therapist. It's emotionally draining to be a stepmother. Being a stepmother is the most difficult job on the planet because no matter what you do, you lose.
Sarah Jo Smith
#43. The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
Ian Rankin
#44. Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.
Joyce Meyer
#45. Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
John Grisham
#46. Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.
Rolf Potts
#47. humility is one of the chief and the highest graces; one of the most difficult of attainment; one to which our first and chiefest efforts ought to be directed; one that only comes in power, when the fullness of the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ, and He lives within us. Second,
Andrew Murray
#49. The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.
Daniel Pearce
#50. Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
Wendy Mogel
#51. Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
Pearl Zhu
#52. The essential discipline of following one's breath to nourish and maintain calm mindfulness, even in the midst of the most difficult circumstances.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#53. It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn
#54. Living, breathing obstacles are often the most difficult to overcome.
Shawn Casemore
#55. One of the most difficult things a pilot must learn is to be patient with the weather.
David Helms
#56. Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.
Wassily Kandinsky
#57. For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
Kenneth Chenault
#58. I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
Walker Evans
#59. Kindness may be the most difficult of virtues, but when I have encountered it, it has meant everything to me.
George Hodgman
#60. The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most in [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ].
Johnny Depp
#61. For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
Dweezil Zappa
#63. One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.
Nelson Mandela
#64. His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. 'To be kind is not enough,' he would say. 'You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life's fluctuating fortunes.
Arnold Zable
#65. Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#66. The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.
Darius Milhaud
#67. Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#68. Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.
Eliza Lynn Linton
#69. The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.
Robert Trivers
#70. For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.
Haruki Murakami
#71. Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind.
Leonard Darwin
#72. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton
#73. The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.
Moises Naim
#74. The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.
Hal Riney
#75. The most difficult kind of strength
restraint.
Rick Riordan
#77. A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.
Daniel McHugh
#78. Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#79. Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Ruggiero Ricci
#80. Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
Steve Prefontaine
#81. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#82. Rejection is the most difficult thing to over come !!
Harsha
#83. Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Rene Descartes
#84. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
#85. The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance
Joss Whedon
#86. For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#87. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz
#88. The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
Yukio Mishima
#89. The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb
Camron Wright
#90. The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.
Anne Fadiman
#91. Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.
Thomas G. Bandy
#92. The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
#93. Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
Dean Koontz
#94. I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
Joan Halifax
#95. The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
Irving Stone
#96. From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Plato
#97. The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden
#98. One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.
Gerard Arpey
#99. But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.
Hugh Jackman
#100. I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.
James Hudson Taylor
