Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

    “Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.”
    —Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861–1933)

    “It is easy to dodge a spear in the daylight, but it is difficult to avoid an arrow in the dark.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)