Top 520 Difficult Quotes

I didn’t understand how difficult it would be to transition in the public eye and look back at pre-transition videos – it’s sort of humiliating and painful.
ContraPoints
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
Diego Maradona
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this… will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley
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.
Alexandre Dumas
There’s no way around it – drama is very difficult to shoot. It’s very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.
Denis Leary
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of – another Jew?
Heinrich Heine
It's difficult for me to really temper my personality,

It’s difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I’ve never said something mean just like that. I’ve only said things in retaliation.
Sonam Kapoor
That’s quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
Hans Matheson
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Niels Bohr
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn’t read any books. But I didn’t read any books. That’s my story. That’s my truth.
Jason Reynolds
In France, it’s easy to know which team is going to win the game, whereas in England, anywhere you play, you know it’s going to be difficult.
Anthony Martial
Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.
Morena Baccarin
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
J. Cole
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It’s a craft you have to continue to work at.
James Gray
It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.
Tommy Hilfiger
Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
Rene Girard
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
Paul Singer
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
Emilie Autumn
The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I’m trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don’t want to have regrets or excuses or think, ‘I can do better next time.’
Wong Kar-wai
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
Jack Ma
Without having a goal, it’s difficult to score.
Paul Arden
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It’s a difficult game, but it doesn’t have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – ‘lobbies’ they call them in the States.
George Papandreou
I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I’m not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club’s swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.
Lee Trevino
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh
But ‘Memento’ was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I’d have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.
Christopher Nolan
Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.
David de Gea
I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class.
Thomas S. Monson
When you’re playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it’s incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Ed Helms
The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lotte

The Champions League is so difficult, It’s like a lottery: sometimes you’re just unlucky.
Edgar Davids
I grew up in Ajegunle, which is like a ghetto and it was very difficult there. When it would get to the weekend, everybody was excited because they wanted to watch Man United play.
Odion Ighalo
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I’m still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Hermann Maier
Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don’t realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I’m doing, though.
Gaten Matarazzo
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
There are times when I get really depressed, when I’m going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I’ll think, ‘Forget it. I want to be this way.’ I often feel that way. But when we started the Love Yourself World Tour, I stopped having those thoughts.
Kim Tae-hyung
It’s very difficult for I think any player in any sport to want to play for a guy that doesn’t believe in their race or looks down upon their race, for whatever reason.
Jermaine O’Neal
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
Ravi Zacharias
I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things got a little difficult to manage. I was inclined towards studies, but then I also had to give time to badminton.
P. V. Sindhu
Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I’m acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.
Lee Byung-hun
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
Jahangir Khan
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
David Cone
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Andrea Dworkin
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
John Berger
I revere my serials. But the reality, at the same time, is that it is difficult to get a break in films. I have been unceremoniously ousted from 20-25 films because I am a serial actor.
Anoop Menon
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The biggest thing for me is that I’ve managed to work through some difficult times, and those moments always make you stronger. It makes you a stronger person and a better player.
David de Gea
Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.
James Marsden
In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I’ll be at both acting and living.
Jean Seberg
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
Orville Wright
When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo