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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Trial.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
If life is a trial, who is the judge and jury?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -
after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
If you tried to give rock and roll another name,
you might call it "Chuck Berry."
- John Lennon
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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