Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them. — Brittany Murphy
Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid. — Damon Runyon
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne
Short Difficult Life Quotes
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. — John Wayne
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. — John Wayne
Life ain't all beer and skittles. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Life is never completely without its challenges. — Stan Lee
Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. — Coolio
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. — John Wayne
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard — 50 Cent
Life is full of challenges and surprises. — Jil Sander
Love is sometimes difficult but death even more so. — Albanian Proverbs
Top 10 Difficult Life Quotes
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John F. Kennedy
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. — Thales
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. — Joel Osteen
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela
Difficult Life Image Quotes
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Very Difficult Life Quotes
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. — George Papandreou
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. — Elizabeth Lesser
It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus. — Brother Lawrence
Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. — James C. Collins
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. — Hugh Hefner
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you’ll probably smile and say, “I lived a very fun life — Minzy
As the CEO running my life, running Meghan Trainor, I have to say 'no' to things all the time, and it's been very uncomfortable and very difficult. I've said 'no' and it's actually worked - even when I never thought it would work. — Meghan Trainor
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life. — Lisa Hammond
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away. — Selma Lagerlöf
Life Is Too Difficult Quotes
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? — Robert H. Schuller
You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor. — Carol Bartz
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. — LouisFerdinand Celine
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy. — Cheryl James
Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny. If we take it all too seriously we will go mad. — Ronnie Apteker
I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult. — Kay Panabaker
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Human life is too difficult for people. — Paul Engle
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far. — Alice Neel
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Difficult Times In Life Quotes
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
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. — Isak Dinesen
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
All things are difficult before they are easy
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. — Nadia Comaneci
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. — Mother Teresa
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness. — Lev Landau
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. — William L. Shirer
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. — Barbara De Angelis
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. — Seneca
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time. — Tim Ferriss
Life Is Difficult Quotes
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. — Vincent Van Gogh
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — Abdul Kalam
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. — Stephen Hawking
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. — Steve Gleason
Life Is Very Difficult Quotes
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. — Fay Weldon
You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life. — L. Ron Hubbard
I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though. — Richard Branson
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. — Max Beckmann
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless. — Tim Walker
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. — George Orwell
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. — Carl Jung
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov
Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Life Is So Difficult Quotes
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways. — Ellen G. White
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves. — Christian D. Larson
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting
intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. — Terence
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. — Charles Darwin
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? — Sigmund Freud
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life — Norman Vincent Peale
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions. — Horace Bushnell
If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension. — Jean De La Bruyere
Hard Life Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard. — CM Punk
I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way. — Bray Wyatt
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Life Difficulties Quotes
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. — Rick Ross
We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring. — Alfred Adler
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — C. S. Lewis
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French. — Thomas Sankara
Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom. — Lilias Trotter
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life. — Zoltan Kodaly
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more. — Zig Ziglar
Painful Life Quotes
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier. — Rick Ross
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed
I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts. — J. Cole
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. — Bob Marley
There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment. — Nick Saban
Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. — J. Cole
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. — Jim Morrison
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
Difficult Childhood Quotes
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. — Adolf Eichmann
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. — Alice Miller
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it. — Truman Capote
I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change. — Monty Roberts
[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear. — Jacqueline Cochran
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all. — Rainer Maria Rilke
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. — Rachel Stevens
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41] — Dani Shapiro
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me. — George Lopez
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. — M. Scott Peck
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. — Simone de Beauvoir
Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best. — Meb Keflezighi
Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible. — Douglas Bader
There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate. — Stockwell Day
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. — Helen Keller
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. — Audre Lorde
I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. — William Ury
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life. — Leopold Sedar Senghor
God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I thought could never be done. Push me to go to the deep waters of life and cast my net wide, for I put all my hope, trust and faith in you. — Matthew Kelly
Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God. — John Hagee
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. — Prem Rawat
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