Difficult Quotes

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa

Love, Life, Positive

Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

Frederick Lenz

Never Settle, Action, Easy

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Believe, Liberalism, I Believe

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The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

Andrew Carnegie

Interesting, Problem, Problem Solving

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God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

Difficult Days, Grants

William Shakespeare (2004). “Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.10, Sparklesoup LLC

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All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert

Happiness, Past, Waste

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Satchel Paige

Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Honore de Balzac

Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas

Art, Experience, Painting

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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Laozi

Inspirational, Change, Motivation

Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Happiness, Uplifting, Funny Inspirational

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Laozi

Uplifting, Journey, Difficult And Easy

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Life, Confused

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2083, Delphi Classics

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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Ronald Reagan

Country, Believe, Food

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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Isaac Watts

Trust, Tasks, Trust In God

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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore White

Friendship, Courage, Bullying

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Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature.

Rajneesh

Hard Work, Tired, People

"The Book of Wisdom". Book by Osho, 1983.

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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Religious, Thoughtful, Liberty

Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 1985.

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I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.

Jeanette Winterson

Hurt, Perfect, Laughing

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There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Tom Waits

Fall, Important, Trying

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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

Motivational, Perseverance, Courage

Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

Nancy Reagan

Country, Husband, Leader

"Margaret Thatcher dies: news and reaction" by Andrew Sparrow, Barry Neild, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2013.

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