Sayings about Ease & Difficulties
With a full belly it is easy to talk about fasting. ~ Croatian Proverbs
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. ~ Czech Proverbs
To be human is easy; to be a human being is difficult. ~ Chinese Proverb
To criticize is easy, to do is difficult. ~ German Proverbs
It is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but difficult to get one general. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is easy to be born; it is difficult to be a human being. ~ Filipino Proverbs
Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. ~ French Proverb
It is difficult to find a man but it’s easy to recognize him. ~ Serbian Proverb
Talking is easy, action is difficult. ~ Spanish Proverbs
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one’s family. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is easy to die — the difficulty lies in living. ~ Japanese Proverbs
The main road is an easy way, but everyone loves the side streets. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations
How strangely easy difficult things are! ~ Charles Buxton
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. ~ John Churton Collins
There is nothing so easy in itself but grows difficult when it is performed against one’s will. ~ Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ~ Scott Alexander
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ~ William Cowper
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ~ Samuel Johnson
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream. ~ Tommy Hilfiger
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ~ Morarji Desai
t is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~ Honore De Balzac
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. ~ Ramakrishna
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
If things are natural, they’re easy. If they’re unnatural they’re difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either. ~ Author Unknown
It is easy to sit up and take notice, what is difficult is getting up and taking action. ~ Al Batt
Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top — or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another. ~ Richard M. Nixon
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ~ Confucius
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ~ Plutarch
Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.~ Kevin Conroy
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. ~ John Churton Collins
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.~ Edgar Degas
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. ~ Dwight L. Moody
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ~ Charles De Montesquieu
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ~ Omar Nelson Bradley
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~ Publius Terentius Afer
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu