Quotes about difficulties

God knows our situation He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity—and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top.

When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life

Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).

The difficulties of life don't stop attacking your self-worth and self-confidence, you just have to repair and fortify every time. Recall and recite it; tell yourself what you are worth.

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.

God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.

Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. And owning them made her part of the world, and the world a part of her.

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and that Progress, incessant and continued, is the great law of the human race'Dr Henry George Charles Clarke, 1847.Quoted in Champion of the Quarterdeck (2017)

Problems are never as difficult as when they are your own.

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.

When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.

I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own.

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.

It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.You can climb it and cross to the other side.You can go around it.You can dig under it.You can fly over it.You can blow it up.You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.You can turn around and go back the way you came.Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight.

There is always a mountain ahead, that must be conquered.

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

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Those who are difficult to love, are difficult to love because they have gone through difficult things which have made them the way they are. What you need to do is to forgive, what they need is your love.

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.

Whatever happens to us is beneficial.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves.This is precisely why you're stuck. Starting without seeing the end is difficult, so we often wait until we see the end, scanning relentlessly for the right way, the best way and the perfect way.The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.Step by step, page by page, interaction by interaction. As you start moving, you can't help but improve, can't help but incrementally find yourself getting back towa

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

They want me to contain the raging fires within me. They need me to appreciate glowing embers, to understand that even weak flames need to be managed with a lot of careful planning.

If human help fails, God will never forsake thee.

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way

When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things bad and change something!

We must learn from our struggles.

Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s kinda cool to have a black eye every now and then. And I think it’s definitely okay to have scars, and it’s definitely okay to hurt, and be in pain and show it. And that’s why we have friends in this life. And it’s why we have music.

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits

When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray.

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

Encourage yourself and do it bit by bit. It may appear tough, but every single bite of it every day is an endorsement that all will be chopped off sooner. Nothing is too difficult!

You will rise above all limitations once you begin to live life with the right attitude. People who fail and fall are the people who see difficulties in every opportunity and call it "impossibility". Rise up!

Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!

What you see to be difficult now, is likely to be the easiest thing ever later when you deliberately get your willpower trained over it by repeated attempts! Don't give up!

If you always find yourself numbering your troubles, you will never find time counting your blessings. There is no use becoming frustrated in your difficulties while you have all opportunities hiding in them for a turnover!

The lows may be the highs in disguise.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.

The inner peace can block any windy weather.

If you are never the cause of someone's sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness.

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.

Let our heart glow when you pray.Let our soul's innermost desire and need flow in silence, gratitude and humble petition.Let our daily prayers be a life attitude not only when we are in trouble but never forgetting to include all others who are also in difficulties.There are times prayers cannot change things for us but we grow and change with faith and strength, patience and serenity with a heart that extends for others.

Pray without ceasing, say all you can to God and lay all your difficulties before him. He’ll take away your tears and make a way where there seems to be none. Wake up and do it!

I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that.

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.

Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.