Difficult

Not so easy. This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about difficult and difficulties.

Difficult Rubik's cube
Difficult but not impossible.


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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

A woman and a melon are hard to choose.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Things become easier after some time after you had some practice.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
Quoted: Winnie The Pooh

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather

In a game it's difficult to know when to stop.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Jane Austen
Source: Emma (1815)

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath Tagore

It wasn't hard to play stupid when you are stupid.
Jonas Jonasson
Source: Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

It's always further than it looks. It's always taller than it looks. And it's always harder than it looks.
(unknown author)

It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.
(unknown author)

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard

It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Vincent van Gogh

Making peace, I have found, is harder than making war.
Gerry Adams

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
Edward Norton Lorenz

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Mark Twain
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Old crows are hard to catch.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
Cindy Ross

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best view comes after the hardest climb.
(unknown author)

The first step is the hardest.
The most difficult part of a job is to begin with it.

The three most difficult to understand; the mind of a woman, the labor of the bees and the ebb and flow of the tide.
(unknown author)

Unless one pretends to be stupid and deaf, it is difficult to be a mother-in-law or father-in-law.




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