Difficult Circumstances Quotes

• Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Creative, Difficult, Circumstances

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• If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

  James Forrestal

  War, Lying, Europe

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• At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Stories, Redemption

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• We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Creative, Different, Needs

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

  Tony Blair

  Ideas, Choices, Abortion

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• The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fate, Fighting, Animal

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

  Tony Abbott

  Sometimes, Accepting, Difficult

  "Abbott faces questions over comments in Sri Lanka". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 18, 2013.

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• If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

  Rachel Corrie

  Beautiful, Strong, People

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

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• Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

  Mo Yan

  Thinking, Profound, Understanding

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Home, Giving

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• The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Attitude, Lasts

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• In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

  Ron Dennis

  Business, Team, Simple

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• In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Moving, Men, Years

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• When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Real, Problem, Accepting

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.324, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Compassion, Sometimes, Difficult

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.314, Hachette UK

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• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Friends, Karma, Pride

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• You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.

  Brian Regan

  Fun, Might, Way

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• I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.

  Brian Regan

  People, Laughing, Perspective

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• Just as Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered, we learn obedience by the difficult circumstances we face. When we obey the Word of God that is spoken by the Holy Spirit, we will grow and mature in the times of conflict and suffering. Our knowledge of Scripture is not the key. Obedience is.

  John Bevere

  Jesus, Keys, Suffering

  John Bevere (2010). “The Bait of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.59, Charisma Media

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• You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Mind, Principles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

  Andrew Solomon

  Father, People, Parent

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