Difficulty Quotes

Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can't.

The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It's 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security. If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration of a good Government, to become a great and happy people.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

The image is one thing, and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

There is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.