Tough Times Quotes - Page 3

• Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

  Timothy Keller

  Fire, Suffering, Walks

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Adversity, Helping Others

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.

  Joel Osteen

  Strength, God, Faith

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fake People, Islamic, Hypocrite

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

  Nelson Mandela

  Tragedy, Determined, Misery

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

  Karen Hesse

  Hard Times, Odds, Illumination

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

  "Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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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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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, African American

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Anxiety, Mind

  Twitter post from May 04, 2015

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• Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Devil

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