Quotations on difficulty

ndertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
-Ronald E. Osborn
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-William Ellery Channing
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
-Chopin
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
-Seneca
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
-Phyllis Bottome
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
-Abram Sacher
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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No problem exists that drink doesn't make worse.
-unknown
I took a physics course that was so hard I couldn't find the classroom.
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It is NOT because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-Seneca
No matter which way you go, it's uphill and against the wind.
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