Difficult Times Quotes

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Self Esteem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Style, Difficulty

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• Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

  Isak Dinesen

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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• The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Freedom, Giving

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Encouraging, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 21, 2014

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Uplifting, Hope

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• Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.118, American Liberty Press

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cancer, Hard Times, Tough Times

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• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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