Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

The greater the difficulty the more the glory in surmounting it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

For families across the UK who are income-poor but more than that whose lives are blighted by worklessness educational failure family breakdown problem debt and poor health as well as other problems giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

The complaint of bad pay and difficulty in obtaining it is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

A system of education which would not gratify this disposition in any party is requisite in order to obviate the difficulty and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

In regard to education something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams like a dog in its basket of hares in the open.

After my mother's death I had such difficulty relating to people.

Deep down no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time death is suddenly there unintelligibly.

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

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant solely for recitation is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.