Difficult- Difficulty Quotes

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Trials, temptations, disappointments – all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was […]

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.