Difficult Days Quotes

• Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.

  Theodore Tilton

  Pain, Passing Away, Bears

  THEODORE TILTON (1867). “THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS”, p.47

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• Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Morning, Blessing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.170, tredition

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• God grant us patience!

  William Shakespeare

  Difficult, Grants

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.10, Sparklesoup LLC

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• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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• We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Justice, Diversity

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Pain, Blessing, Comfort

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.166, Conari Press

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• Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Want, Promised Land

  Speech in Memphis, 3 Apr. 1968 (the day before King was assassinated), in New York Times 4 Apr. 1968, p. 24

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• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  Gary Neville

  Couple, Tomorrow, Difficult

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• Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better

  Kevin Henkes

  Today, Tomorrow Will Be Better, Difficult

  Kevin Henkes (1996). “Lilly's purple plastic purse”

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• I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

  Maria Sharapova

  Sports, Morning, Careers

  "Maria Sharapova Presser: Winning The French, It’s The Most Unique Moment I’ve Experienced In My Career" by Tom Gainey, www.tennis-x.com. June 9, 2012.

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• These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Bad Day, Dark

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• Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

  Starhawk

  Stress, Long, Panic

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• The present will not long endure.

  Pindar

  Long, Endure, Difficult

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• I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

  Sarah Hughes

  Sacrifice, Hardship, Skating

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• The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.

  Mark Mason

  Pain, Mistake, Errors

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

  David McCullough

  Determination, Shadow, Courageous

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Regret, Eight

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

  Jacqueline Briskin

  Writing, Successful, Numbers

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• The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Party, Loss, Expectations

  "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press". Issued by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, p. 9, 1953.

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• The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Men, Enemy

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Exercise, Excuse You, Tolerance

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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• The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul. It had indeed been an error. It had been late one night-- of course. It had been a difficult day-- of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Errors, Light

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• You can't have genius without patience.

  Margaret Deland

  Genius, Difficult

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Running, Sweet, Drawing

  James Whitcomb Riley, “Who Bides His Time”

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• That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, Needs, Impatient

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