Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. Seneca
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus
When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test. Keanu Reeves
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty. Japanese Proverb
All war follow a demonstrate failure of difficulty diplomacy. African Proverb
England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity. Latin Proverb