Difficult- Difficulty Quotes

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to management than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by […]

Do what is easy as if it were difficult, and what is difficult as if it were easy.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.