Difficulty Quotes

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men.

Samuel Warren.

It has been the glory of the great masters in all arts to confront and to overcome and when they had overcome the first difficulty, to turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties; thus to enable them to extent the empire of science.

Difficulty is a sever instructor, set over us by the supreme guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Burke.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Hope is born in the long night of watching and tears. Faith visits us in defeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly frailty and the crumbling tombstones of mortality.

E.H. Chapin.

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

Sharp.

Difficulty is the soil in which all manly and womanly qualities best flourish; and the true worker, in any sphere, is continually coping with difficulties. His very failures, throwing him upon his own resources, cultivate energy and resolution; his hardships teach him fortitude; his success inspire self-reliance.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not hope, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

W.Mathews.

Difficulties are God’s errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God’s confidence as a compliment from him.

H.W. Beecher.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

A.Hill.

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

Moliere.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Epictetus.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Hazlitt.

There are difficulties in your path. Be thankful for them. They will test your capabilities of resistance; you will be impelled to persevere from the very energy of the opposition. But what of him that fails? What does he gain? Strength for life. The real merit is not in the success, but in the endeavor; and win or lose, he will be honored and crowned.

W.H. Punshon.