Best Life Difficulty Quotes for Overcoming Hard Times

Difficulty quotes are quotes that are inspirational and motivating.

Some people may say that it is easier to give up than to continue. But the truth is, giving up only makes things harder for yourself.

Sometimes we have to go through difficult times in order to become stronger and wiser people.

In any case, we should not be discouraged by difficulties; instead, we should learn from them and use them as opportunities for personal growth. Here are some best difficulty quotes that will help you in never giving up.

Facing difficulties quotes

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
-AESOP

Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with yourselves.
-Walter ANDERSON

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-LOUIS SATCHMO ARMSTRONG

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
-MATTHEW ARNOLD

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
-HONORE DE BALZAC

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
-ROGER BANNISTER

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
-HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
-ARTHUR CLIVE HOWARD BELL

It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient.
-JOSH BILLINGS

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
-JIM JAMES ALONZO BISHOP

Quotes on difficult times

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
-JIM JAMES ALONZO BISHOP

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
PHYLLIS BOTTOME

Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
-NADIA BOULANGER

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
-CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They’re willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There’s a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they’re willing to spend on it.
-DR . JOYCE DIANE BAUER BROTHERS

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-HENRY PETER BROUGHAM

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
-BUDDHA

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
-MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
-GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.
-CHILO

Difficulties make us stronger quotes

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENSER CHURCHILL

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
-CONFUCIUS

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
-ROBYN DAVIDSON

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
-ROBYN DAVIDSON

The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
-MARQUISE DU DEFFAND

I think these 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 around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
-ISAK DINESEN

It is through difficult times when man grew stronger and resilient.
-J.G

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, ‘To know one’s self.’ And what was easy, ‘To advise another.
-LAERTIUS DIOGENES

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
-GEORGE ELIOT

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
-EPICTETUS

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
-EPICTETUS

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

All things are difficult before they are easy.
-DR. THOMAS FULLER

Josh Billings said, “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
-JOHN WILLIAM GARDNER

Be strong to face difficulties quotes

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
-ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
-DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
-CARL GUSTAV. JUNG

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
-JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
-ELI KHAMAROV

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
MICHAEL LEUNING

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion, but rather to know it.
-ANDRE MAUROIS

The difficulty in life is the choice.
-GEORGE MOORE

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
-GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE

All things good to know are difficult to learn.
GREEK PROVERB

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-RAINER MARIA RILKE

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
-BERTRAND RUSSEL