Top 100 Quotes About Difficult
#1. (Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.
Virginia Woolf
#2. It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.
Wes Fesler
#4. Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile.
Debasish Mridha
#5. I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson
#6. 'Wings' was a blessing, but it was also very difficult. Whenever you do situation comedy, no matter how excellent the execution - and we had a great cast and great writers - but the format is somewhat limited.
Tim Daly
#7. Personal accounts flow from the heart and tend to be the most difficult to write. It's nearly impossible to remove the emotional undertones, and it takes so much courage to open those pages to everyone else.
Javier A. Robayo
#8. You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Adam Scott
#9. And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
William Wordsworth
#10. The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Lao-Tzu
#11. Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
Frank Lampard
#12. I think sometimes it is difficult to look after ourselves,' he said, thoughtfully. 'We look to friends to do it for us.
Erika Swyler
#13. Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
Helene Cixous
#14. The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
Baltasar Kormakur
#15. You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
Alex Ferguson
#16. With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
Felix Dennis
#17. Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.
Dan Ariely
#18. Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.
William Kircher
#19. The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.
Neil Gaiman
#20. If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).
Thomas S. Monson
#21. It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
Bob Hoskins
#22. After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
Loudon Wainwright III
#23. Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.
Joyce Carol Oates
#24. I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to shut my imagination down to get a good nights sleep than it is to prod it to life.
Kenneth J. Ester
#25. Didn't she remember that being single is more than just following your whims - that it also means having nobody to help you make difficult decisions, or comfort you at the end of a bad week?
Kate Bolick
#26. I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
David Friedman
#27. If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
Miguel De Cervantes
#28. It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.
John Hill Burton
#29. I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.
Moises Arias
#30. Darrak"- she let out a shuddery breath-"I need my privacy."
"That's going to be difficult. For obvious reasons
Michelle Rowen
#31. Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.
Judge Mills Lane
#32. It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.
Marilynne Robinson
#33. Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.
Jerome K. Jerome
#34. Whatever you find to be very difficult for you, believe it that it's never difficult if you do something little about it every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.
Philemon
#36. It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.
Eddie Arcaro
#37. In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.
S.J. Scott
#38. Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it's hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence.
Nick Paumgarten
#39. Being born as an Indigo, the most difficult mission is to be strong enough to retain your true "self" while living in human stereotype society. Having to pretend, to act "the same as others," can only make you so deeply unhappy and hurt - feeling as though your "wings" have been cut off.
Sahara Sanders
#40. It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
Koo Stark
#41. I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.
Ruzwana Bashir
#42. It is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)
Donald Rothberg
#43. We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
David Suzuki
#44. It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
Antonin Scalia
#45. In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around - and totally uninspiring
Wayne W. Dyer
#46. It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
Mikhail Tal
#47. It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
Rachel Brosnahan
#48. It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.
Chuck Yeager
#49. Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.
Timothy Carey
#50. What means, then, is the dream-work able to use to indicate these relations, which are so difficult to represent, in the dream-thoughts? I shall attempt to list them one by one.
Sigmund Freud
#51. If things are difficult, remember that it won't always be like this.
Jane Riddell
#52. What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
Magnus Carlsen
#53. Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could ... when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.
Isabel Allende
#54. It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
Andrew Carnegie
#55. After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#56. Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.
Sebastian Coe
#57. Though the hill is high, I still desire to walk up it. I don't care how difficult it is, because I understand that it leads to the way of life.
John Bunyan
#58. I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
George Lopez
#59. Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
#60. Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#61. Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.
Derrick Jensen
#62. Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.
Lewis Gordon
#63. It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
Barack Obama
#64. Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
#66. The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .
Ellen Willis
#67. One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
E.W. Howe
#68. Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Catherine The Great
#69. Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.
Jon Meacham
#70. It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#71. If you take the approach that "good" is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you'll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.
Jack Canfield
#72. He glanced at me, then chuckled. "Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
Joseph Finder
#73. It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#74. sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this - the poets declare!2 Science
Huston Smith
#75. If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
Deborah Day
#76. You're so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn't bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.
Peter Cameron
#77. The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.
Marco Pirroni
#78. In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
Leslie Cockburn
#79. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.
Donald Miller
#80. To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
Charlotte Rampling
#81. The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.
Julian Schnabel
#82. To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
Stephen R. Covey
#83. I don't believe in making fashion difficult.
Phoebe Philo
#84. Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#85. Conscious awareness is the source of our healing ... Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.
Marianne Williamson
#86. Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.
Carolina Herrera
#87. As it may be - matters. How you feel about your abilities - your academic "self-concept" - in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#88. Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.
Matthea Harvey
#90. Whether it's difficult or not, there will be a few people who are outstanding, who will rise above the rest.
John Gokongwei
#91. But also, there is much sorrow, not only of the dramatic kind but also in the way that difficult economic circumstances wear people down, eroding them, preying on their weaknesses, until they do things that they themselves find hateful, until they are shadows of their best selves. The
Teju Cole
#92. In hindsight, I was totally unprepared for the truth. I will live without my children much longer than I lived with them. That's a difficult reality after submerging twenty years of my life into the responsibilities, joys, and frustrations of raising kids.
Elaine Ambrose
#93. I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
Ray Dalio
#94. The next aspect of the mystical feeling is even more difficult to assimilate into our ordinary practical intelligence. It is the overwhelming sense that everything that happens - everything that I or anybody else has ever done - is part of a harmonious design and that there is no error at all.
Alan W. Watts
#95. It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
Angelo Scola
#96. It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
Fabio Novembre
#97. It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
Edith Wharton
#98. Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.
Marcus Aurelius
#99. He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie
#100. Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
Chogyam Trungpa
