"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself." ~ Isak Dinesen
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. ~ St. Francis De Sales
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. ~ Paul H. Dunn
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ~ Winston Churchill
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles… are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. ~ William Matthews
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. ~ Dan Rather
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. ~ Phyllis Bottome
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ~ Louis Kossuth
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. ~ Carl Jung
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. ~ Jane Addams
Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty. ~ Colum McCann
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life. ~ Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity, &Insight