Trying Times Quotes

• Silver is purified in fire and so are we.  It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Character, Fire

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Adversity, People, Resilience

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

  Tom Lehrer

  Positive Thinking, Life Is Like, Trying

  "Introduction to 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

  William L. Shirer

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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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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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
  as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
  ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
  grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
  encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
  UP! NEVER RETREAT!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Lying, Grief

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

  Denis Waitley

  Criticism, Trying, Power Of Positive Thinking

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• In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Trying, Remember, Walking

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.

  Neil Peart

  Dark, Wings, Shining

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• It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of the kingdom prior to his millennial reign.... This generation will face trials and troubles that will exceed those of their pioneer forebears. Our generation has had periods of some respite from the foe. The future generation will have little or none....This is a chosen generation.... I believe today's [Church youth] will lead the youth of the world through the most trying time in history.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Believe, Our Generation, Heaven

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• People who make use of all their senses in trying times are no less patriotic than those whose restraint is lost, whose senses are dimmed and whose brains are washed. This is also the time for the patriot to say: Enough.

  Gideon Levy

  Patriotic, People, Brain

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• When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Perspective, Important

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• Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

  Anita Hill

  Writing, People, Supportive

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• It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

  Nick Jonas

  Hope, Trying, Worst

  "Song: 'Don't Speak' ('Lines, Vines and Trying Times')". 2009.

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• Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

  Ehud Olmert

  Leadership, Decision, Trying

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• Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and don't at least occasionally court disaster, you are not trying. Time to hang up the camera.

  Joe McNally

  Mistake, Eye, Trying

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• Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.

  Joe Lando

  Appreciate, Support, Trying

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