Quotes for: difficulty

Quotes for: difficulty

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein /

One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.
Antisthenes /

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
Nelson Mandela /

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
Hermann Hesse /

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill /

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Carl Gustav Jung /

Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
Philippe Néricault, dît Destouches - Le Glorieux /

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu - Persian Letters /

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle /

Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus /

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To the stars through difficulty.
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To the stars through difficulty.

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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
Carl Gustav Jung /

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca /

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years /

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Character is the virtue of hard times.
Charles de Gaulle /

The pleasure from hard effort is the sweetest.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

There is humility in gratitude, and humility is difficult.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues /

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.
Confucius

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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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