Top 520 Difficult Quotes

During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions – a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment.
Janet Yellen
I’m not going to complain about playing a cop, there’s a cop in every country town in this place. Policing the world and the community is a difficult job, because you get it wrong some times. I couldn’t do it for real.
Aaron Pedersen
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Lester B. Pearson
People aren’t born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
Christina Grimmie
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
Bo Bennett
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti
It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
Steven Tyler
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I’m not quite that difficult, even though maybe I’m a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don’t get done, do they?
Heidi Klum
We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.
Reuven Rivlin
My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
Tom Waits
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
Doug Baldwin
By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.
Marc Randolph
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Katha Pollitt
Economics profession, they’ve been – they’ve been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn’t work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.
Charlie Munger
I had an edge in ‘Andhadhun’ because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.
Ayushmann Khurrana
Iker Casillas is one of those keepers who always seems to be at his best in the really difficult games when he has hardly got anything to do but reacts when needed in those emergency situations.
Petr Cech
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
Yiannis Stournaras
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts.
David Benioff
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one’s own view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Paul Watzlawick
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Robin S. Sharma
A lot of times when you’re young and carefree, you don’t realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.
Joe Cocker
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Pythagoras
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Don Marquis
My father blamed me for my brother Gunther’s death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.
Reinhold Messner
With any coach, you have a lot of respect for him, but it is difficult to be their friend.
David de Gea
Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they’ll reach an audience or not.
Barry Pepper
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
Clive Granger
If you aren’t overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
Janeane Garofalo
If you don’t have the right culture, in the difficult moments, the tree is going to shake, so my job is to convince everybody that this is how we are going to live, and if you are going to be part of this organisation it has to be in these terms and in this way.
Mikel Arteta
Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.
Marshall Goldsmith
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Alex Tabarrok
Holding up Shaq every damn day – it’s crazy, you do it four times a year, but doing it every day in practice is difficult.
Jermaine O’Neal
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
Rod Stewart
I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.
Nick Hornby
I’ve heard I’ve been called a bad boy, or difficult.
Alex Pettyfer
Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.
Gloria Estefan
It’s easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It’s much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
Marie Kondo
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
Rafael Nadal
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe