He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources of your own being.
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?
Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.
With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.
Bumps are the things we climb on.
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
The contour eludes me.
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.