Top 100 Quotes About Difficult Situations
#1. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We
Merlin R. Carothers
#2. My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.
Eric Walters
#3. I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
Neil Finn
#4. We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
Sharon Salzberg
#5. Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.
Julia Alvarez
#6. I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
Kerry Greenwood
#7. All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.
Jonathan Darman
#8. It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.
Isabelle Huppert
#9. And I don't recommend murder as a way of settling difficult situations. It tends to lead to complications - but not nearly as many as marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
#10. The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.
Lee Yoon-ki
#11. If I want to live in a peaceful world, then it is up to me to make sure that I am a peaceful person. No matter how others behave, I keep peace in my heart. I declare peace in the midst of chaos or madness. I surround all difficult situations with peace and love.
Louise Hay
#12. I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.
Rudy Giuliani
#13. Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.
Ben Parr
#14. Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#15. I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.
Matt Chandler
#16. Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.
Thom S. Rainer
#17. Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.
Frederick Lenz
#18. We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.
Billy Corgan
#19. A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
John Allen Fraser
#20. I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.
Michael Haneke
#21. People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them
Christina Grimmie
#22. You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
Pope John Paul II
#23. Pause and remember - The spiritual path is not always going to be smooth and easy. There are going to be difficult situations, hardships, losses and lessons. Don't lose faith along the way. You are exactly where you need to be.
Jennifer Young
#24. I've learned, sometimes in very difficult situations, to operate confidently in paradox.
J. Michael Martinez
#25. But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
Judah Smith
#26. Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations.
M.J. Ryan
#27. I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and hope that you, too, will find that, even in the most difficult situations, you are fully supported by the universe. All that is required is that you ask for help. It is there waiting for you.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#28. He supposed it was good none of them knew how lost he was just now, how absent the intuition that had carried him through so many difficult situations.
Stephen King
#29. I believe in the understanding of difficult situations, difficult music, or any kind of difficulties, through familiarity. Familiarity, in this case, does not breed contempt, but breeds understanding.
Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said
#30. People's character will be revealed in difficult situations, whether they are a loser or a winner.
Ardianto Sony
#31. A smile is the best way to deal with difficult situations. Even if it's a fake one. Used properly, you can fool anyone with them.
Sai
#32. I admire the strength and courage of all young people faced with difficult situations in life. You are an inspiration to me and so many people around you, as you overcome challenges and come out of it stronger.
Fearne Cotton
#33. Difficult situations create exploitable opportunities for those strong enough to persevere.
Chad Bowen
#34. ...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
Oswald Chambers
#35. It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.
Richard Whitehead
#36. When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#37. I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
Paula Cole
#38. The only way you're going to grow is to be in difficult situations.
Mike Krzyzewski
#39. Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.
T.A. Uner
#40. One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.
Chris Kluwe
#41. I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations.
My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
Eric Gibbons
#43. Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel anxiety in constructive ways.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#44. I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.
Julia Alvarez
#45. I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
Carrie Fisher
#46. I've gotten myself into some difficult situations because I couldn't say no.
Melissa McBride
#47. Always have passion on what you do for your entire life. This would characteristic would help you to overcome very difficult situations.
Saaif Alam
#48. Do not stop pursuing your dreams in the midst of all the difficult situations you find yourself to be in. Instead, set your goals in faith.
Auliq Ice
#49. At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
P.G. Wodehouse
#50. Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
Dalai Lama XIV
#51. It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
John C. Maxwell
#53. There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.
Jemaine Clement
#54. To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.
Scott K. Edinger
#55. I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
Madeleine Peyroux
#56. A wise leader always sees the best in people even in difficult situations.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. I don't know you well enough to like or dislike you." "I have the opposite opinion. Seeing you react to difficult situations and watching you interact with strangers tells me you're an incredible person.
E.B. Sullivan
#58. I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.
Linda Lael Miller
#59. Mindfulness exercises produce literal changes in the brain's connections, significantly affecting how well a person interacts with other people and adapts to difficult situations.
Daniel J. Siegel
#60. When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.
Paulo Coelho
#61. Sometimes you get more creativity when you're in a box than when you can do anything. In really difficult situations, sometimes, you get the most interesting thinking.
Jim Mullen
#62. You know the bad thing about being a survivor ... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
Carrie Fisher
#63. Difficult situations breed astonishing results.
Jeffrey Veen
#65. Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.
Tony DiCicco
#67. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#68. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.
John Lanchester
#69. No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.
Daisaku Ikeda
#70. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
James Van Praagh
#71. Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.
John C. Maxwell
#72. In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
Stephen Covey
#74. In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#75. In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
Robert Baden-Powell
#76. Developing the power within, to have the confidence to take charge in the most difficult and dangerous of situations, is the hallmark of a true professional.
Subroto Bagchi
#77. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.
Kate Kerrigan
#78. Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
Azim Premji
#79. In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.
Wes Fesler
#80. Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.
Geri Larkin
#81. Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises.
Glen E. Morrell
#82. I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
Andrew Solomon
#83. Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible ...
Thomas Jefferson
#84. Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'
Lulu
#85. A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
Brian Regan
#86. I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.
Michelle Yeoh
#87. Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph
Ralph Marston
#88. She drew herself up to her full height - it was a little difficult on a donkey - and said primly, I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!
Dorothy Gilman
#89. If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again. So we didn't have time to do that. It was just two years, the most difficult situation in Greece.
Eva Kaili
#90. One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that
Norman Vincent Peale
#91. I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.
Lee Trevino
#92. Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.
Garrison Wynn
#93. For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.
James Ellroy
#94. Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.
Drew Brees
#95. If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
Madeleine Albright
#96. Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.
Travis Bradberry
#97. You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.
Sam Brownback
#98. (Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor ... They can't think what else to do.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
#99. There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.
Guy Pearce
#100. One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!
Shigesato Itoi
