• For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.8 · 52 votes · 171 reads

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• However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 5 votes · 126 reads

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• I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 13 reads

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• If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.

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  Anonymous

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• If you can't go over, you must go under.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

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• In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 121 reads

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• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 46 votes · 75 reads

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• Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 42 reads

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• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 59 votes · 15 reads

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• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 109 reads

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• The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  3.9 · 41 votes · 104 reads

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• The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 174 reads

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 104 reads

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• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 96 reads

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• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.6 · 63 votes · 156 reads

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• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 0 reads

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 131 reads

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• Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

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• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.8 · 58 votes · 79 reads

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 68 reads

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• We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told: ''Blessed are they that morn.''

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 40 reads

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• When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.

  

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  Anonymous

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• When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 138 reads

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