Definition of Difficulty

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Difficulty

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.

Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.

A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

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Difficulty Quotations

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins

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.
Abraham Lincoln

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers

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.
Lao Tzu

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus

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

Difficulty Translations

difficulty in Afrikaans is moeilikheid
difficulty in Dutch is bezwaar, moeilijkheid, strubbeling
difficulty in German is Schwierigkeiten, Schwierigkeit
difficulty in Latin is impedimentum, difficultas
difficulty in Norwegian is vanskelighet
difficulty in Portuguese is dificuldade
difficulty in Spanish is dificultad, inconveniente

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