Hard Times Quotes - Page 38

• Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Design

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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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• He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Positive, Crazy

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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, Tough Times, Resilience

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Cheer, Talking, Christian Inspirational

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.220, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Inspirational, Learning, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Jul 05, 2012

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Skills, Storm

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• Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Tough Times

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• Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Statistics, Facts

  Hard Times bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854)

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Michael Jordan, Walter Iooss, Mark Vancil (1995). “I'm back!: more rare air”, Harpercollins

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• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Bernard Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Time, Live Life

  The Last Lecture, 2008.

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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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• Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

  Charles Dickens

  Roots, Facts, Plant

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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  We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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