1. difficult - Adjective
2. difficult - Verb
Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. Propertius
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. Laozi
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
If your mind is strong, all difficult things will become easy; if your mind is weak, all easy things will become difficult. Chinese Proverb
All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek Proverb
All beginning is difficult. German Proverb