1096 – “It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”

-Stephen Fry [Attributed]

890 – “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

–anonymous

874 – “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

–John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

581 – “Difficultatis patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.”

“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”

–Quintilian

516 – “Remember, anyone can love you when the sun is shining, but it’s during the storms that you find out who cares for you.”

–anonymous

473 – “For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.”

–Rutherford B Hayes, 19th President of the United States of America

443 – “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

–John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America

380 – “One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself.”

–Nelson Mandela