Difficulty Quotes

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.[Was von uns verlangt wird, ist, daß wir das Schwere lieben und mit dem Schweren umgehen lernen. Im Schweren sind die freundlichen Kräfte, die Hände, die an uns arbeiten. Mitten im Schweren sollen wir unsere Freuden haben, unser Glück, unsere Träume: da, vor der Tiefe diese Hintergrunds, heben sie sich ab, da sehen wir erst, wie schön sie sind.]

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life’s fight.[Maar door de moeielijkheden te bestrijden waarin men zich bevindt ontwikkelt zich ook innerlijke kracht uit ons hart dat beter wordt in den strijd des levens.]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.