Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Difficult- Difficulty Quotes
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
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.