| "Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." »Johann von Goethe |
| "difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him." »Simone Weil |
| "Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "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 |
| "There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language." »William Osler |
| "You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." »Daisaku Ikeda |
| "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "It is only the first step that is difficult." »Marie De Vichy-Chaconne |
| "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." »Niels Bohr |
| "Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly." »Terence |
| "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking." »Terence |
| "All things are difficult before they are easy." »Thomas Fuller |
| "The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult." »Marquise du Deffand |
| "The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice." »Abbe' D'Allanival |
| "What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other" »Roger Bannister |
| "All things good to know are difficult to learn." »Greek Proverb |
| "The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others." »Marcel Proust |
| "To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult." »Plutarch |
| "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." »Michael Leuning |
| "People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge." »Lao Tzu |
| "Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult." »George Eliot |
| "It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient." »Josh Billings |
| "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann |
| "Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." »Iris Murdoch |
| "It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best." »E. R. Bulwer-Lytton |
| "Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." »Walter Anderson |
| "The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it." »Andr Maurois |
| "When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'" »Laertius Diogenes |
| "An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent." »Edmund Burke |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
