It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
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.
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading the judgment difficult.
The difficulty is not to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
It's easy to give advice to othersIt's difficult to know yourself .
It is difficult to predict human feelings
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring.