Difficult Life Quotes

• I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Easier, Difficult, I Realized

  Source: www.bigfanboy.com

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Men, Life Being Hard

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• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Pain, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

  Rory Vaden

  Motivation, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

  Randall Wright

  Discipline, Today, Tomorrow

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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Change, Gratitude

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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• The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Goal, Experience, Difficult

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• However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

  Stephen Hawking

  May, Succeed, Inspiring Movie

  "Prof Stephen Hawking too unwell to deliver own 70th birthday speech" by Nick Collins, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 8, 2012.

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• Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

  Phillip Lopate

  Difficult, Hedonism, Rational

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

  Drew Pinsky

  Matter, Difficult

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• The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

  Paul Monette

  Struggle, Gay, Justice

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