Difficulties Quotes and Proverbs

Lance Armstrong
During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally.

Chuang Tzu
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Dwight Moody
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met. .

Elizabeth Montagu
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress.

Plato
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Unknown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals.

Emmet Fox
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

Isak Dinesen
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Golda Meir
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Richard Bach
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

Tennessee Williams
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Seng-Ts'an
The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

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

Ingrid Bengis
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.