C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties."
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Difficulty
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Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path."
John Smith
Politician
"Everything of worth is found full of difficulties."
Socrates
Philosopher
"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty."
Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"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."
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"Only entropy comes easy."
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"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."
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"Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all."
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"Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious."
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"The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves."
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"My difficulties belong to me!"
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"Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good."
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"Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you."
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"A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one."
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"Difficulty is the nurse of greatness."
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"Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away."
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"Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty."
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"Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him."
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"With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy."
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
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"After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?"
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"For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
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"Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them."
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"He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties."
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"I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them."
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