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When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — William Thomson

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. — Epictetus

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. — Abigail Adams

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them. — Meher Baba

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It's not adversity that scares us, but often it's fear that makes it difficult. So don't give up easily. — Joko Widodo

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away. — Pema Chodron

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. — Winston Churchill

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. — Bryan Adams

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov

All things are difficult before they are easy. — John Norley

Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow. — Michio Kushi

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. — Paul Valery

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure. — Emmet Fox

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Facing difficulties quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Facing Difficulties In Life Quotes

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

Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. — Norman Vincent Peale

Facing difficulties quote A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles. — Paulo Coelho

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. — Jim Rohn

One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion. — Bell Hooks

Facing difficulties quote The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect. — Elizabeth Strout

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience. — Ameen Rihani

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. — John C. Maxwell

In the face of life’s difficulties, let us ask the Lord for the strength to remain joyful witnesses to our faith. — Pope Francis

Facing Problems Quotes

Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. — Ronald Reagan

Facing difficulties quote One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul — Tupac Shakur

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. — Paula Poundstone

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Facing difficulties quote Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a prett
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.

Face your problems! Unless your problem is your face. — PewDiePie

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. — Pete Townshend

The purpose of every habit is to solve the problems you face with as little energy and effort as possible. — James Clear

Happiness is a skill that everyone has the ability to cultivate and develop. One of the problems we face in our quest for happiness is that we have not actually defined what it means for us. — Rangan Chatterjee

Facing Failure Quotes

Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life. — T. D. Jakes

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. - Mahatma Gandhi

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t worry about where to start. Remember, it’s the decisions you make, it’s the decision to get started it’s the decision to face possible failure, it’s the decision to get up once you’ve failed and it’s the decision of what to learn when you fail. — Tom Bilyeu

Facing difficulties quote All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence. — Martin Seligman

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. — Dorothea Brande

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control. — Kelly McGonigal

Facing difficulties quote Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; for I am like the moon, you will see me with a n
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; for I am like the moon, you will see me with a new face everyday.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. — Donald Trump

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face. — William Bridges

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive. — Carlos Slim

Overcoming Difficulties Quotes

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill. — Henry Tudor

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. — Norman Vincent Peale

Facing difficulties quote A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them - Rita Levi-Montalcini

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them — Rita Levi-Montalcini

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater. — Mao Zedong

Facing difficulties quote Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. — William Arthur Ward

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save. — Annie Besant

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. — Mark Twight

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

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

Facing difficulties quote Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes yo
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.

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.

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

Facing difficulties quote Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

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

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 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

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Difficult Challenges Quotes

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — Albert Bandura

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times. — Rudolf Hess

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

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome. — Roy Lessin

It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs

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

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun

Facing Adversity Quotes

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Leadership and AdversityZig Ziglar

I love those who can smile in trouble. - Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble. — Leonardo da Vinci

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' — Eleanor Roosevelt

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. — Joshua Waitzkin

Hope is a practical and powerful force. It's what keeps us going in the face of adversity. — Alexei Navalny

Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in. — Mandy Hale

Cleaner Law: when you are going through a world of pain, you never hide. You show up to work ready to go, you face adversity and your critics and those who judge you, you step into the zone and perform at that top level when everyone is expecting you to falter. That’s being a professional. — Tim Grover

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers. — Giorgio Armani

In Times Of Difficulties Quotes

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. — Mao Zedong

The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty. — Dixon Edward Hoste

In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realize the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another. — Xi Jinping

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual? — Albert Einstein

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. — James C. Collins

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. — Mao Zedong

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty. — Winston Churchill

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities. — Jakaya Kikwete

Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty. — Pope Francis

Overcoming Challenges Quotes

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. — Joshua J. Marine

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore

Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. — Wilma Mankiller

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. — Woodrow Wilson

Danger can only be overcome by more danger — Greek Proverbs

Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time, and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me. — Lewis Howes

It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning. — Nina Dobrev

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

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Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. — Amy Carmichael

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead. — Barack Obama

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! — Barack Obama

Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them. — Edgar Cayce

Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment. — Sarada Devi

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility. — Abdu'l-Bahá

Blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I have faced. So I decided to open a flying school and teach other Black women to fly. For accidents may happen and there would be someone to take my place. — Bessie Coleman

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses. — Mia Love

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient. — Jim Rohn

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. — William J. H. Boetcker

So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face. — Ryan Tedder

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties. — Oscar Romero

To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness. — Howard W. Hunter

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Seneca

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. — Hugh Prather

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. — Brian Tracy

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step. — Paulo Coelho

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. — Elbert Hubbard

Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life. — Daisaku Ikeda

Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so to find a new discursive space, a space to wander around those subject matters, is a real challenge. — Larry Sultan

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. — Stanislaus I

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade. — Unknown

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list. — Tony Dungy

Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared. — Frantisek Kupka

Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen. — Tony Robbins

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer. — Paulo Coelho

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart. — Mary Anne Radmacher

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. — Cai Guo-Qiang

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered. — Dalai Lama

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. — Gene Tierney

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. — Iris Chang

My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor. — Michelangelo

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive. — Mark Nepo

Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going? — Surya Das

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