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It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times. -- Nick Jonas
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times. -- Denis Waitley
Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times. -- Ehud Olmert
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
We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium. -- Richard Chandler
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
Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge -- Cassandra Clare
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
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
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
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
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
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
There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. -- Bill Kristol
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
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
They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, they've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me hug. And they know who I am, and I believe they're comfortable with the fact that they know I'm not going to shift principles or shift positions based upon polls and focus groups. -- George W. Bush
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
I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying. -- Rahul Dravid
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times. -- Art Linkletter
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. -- Jonathan Ive
Open your heart! Even in trying times. Relax. Breathe. Allow. Feel lighter, happier, and at peace. -- Dawn Gluskin
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. -- Edward Abbey
Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times. -- Jack Welch
I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all. -- David Lee Roth
You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go. -- Allen Iverson
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. -- Alberto Giacometti
There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football. -- Victor Cruz
A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying. -- Barry Sanders
Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent. -- Paulo Coelho
Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here. -- Marianne Williamson
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. -- Nicholas Royle
Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved. -- Sarah McLachlan
After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting. -- Miranda Lambert
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. -- Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances. -- Thomas S. Monson
We need to make a change while there's still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine. -- Hopsin
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
You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying. -- Bruno Heller
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. -- Anthony Bourdain
I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there. -- John Hiatt
I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can. -- Astrid Lindgren
I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'. -- Jacki Weaver
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. -- John Burroughs
I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something. -- Anne Tyler
I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me. -- Tupac Shakur
I don't enjoy trying things on, even though most times it's necessary. I tend to only shop online, which is so dangerous for me. -- Stella Hudgens
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy. -- C. S. Lewis
A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different. -- Logan Lerman
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. -- Les Brown
I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't -- Stephen Chbosky
Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying to accomplish. -- Robert Cheeke
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward. -- Dave Grohl
I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all. -- Cara Santana
When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right. -- Harry S. Truman
My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting. -- Miranda Lambert
I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be. -- Whitney Houston
There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world. -- Dave Grohl
I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities. -- Robert Genn
Just trying to keep everything in check, you know, it gives me a lot of respect for closers. You're doing that 75 times a year, so that's pretty impressive. -- Clayton Kershaw
... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop. -- Jay Maisel
The Murdoch-owned 'Sunday Times' has an appalling history of involvement in illegal activity. And it's because they're Sunday papers; they're trying to get scoops that the dailies haven't got. -- Nick Davies
Life is a test of courage, It's only worth if you can learn to withstand your most trying times and remain stable, steady, simple and strong in different places and spaces. -- Auliq Ice
Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times. -- Tom Benson

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