Difficulty Quotes

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  Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, God, Stay Strong

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.42

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• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

  W. A. Criswell

  Moving On, Encouraging, God

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• When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dream, Average

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• 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 Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

  William H. Hastie

  Hope, Achievement, Despair

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

  Milton H. Erickson

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Military, Glory

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Success, Struggle, Accomplishment

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• The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

  Jim Rohn

  Moving On, Famous Inspirational, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 18, 2014

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• Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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  When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Mean, Not Giving Up

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress”, p.9, Thomas Nelson

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• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Way, Best Way

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• Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Persistence

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• There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Real, Knowing, Thrill

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• The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

  Moliere

  Powerful, Honor, Overcoming

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• Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Self, Conquer, Reliance

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• It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

  Emmet Fox

  Real, Law, Suffering

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• It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

  James Sharp

  Struggle, Adversity, Blessing

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

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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