Difficult Times

Improvisation is the gift of invention in its most primitive form. It is the art of coping with the unexpected, of dealing with entirely unforseen circumstances in such a way that one snatches advantage from them.
Lord Beaverbrook, Don't Trust To Luck

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

Arise awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
Swami Vivekananda

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang Tzu

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met.
Dwight Moody

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals.
Author Unknown

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't.
Author Unknown

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh

And, along with these quotes also goes those in relation to mistakes.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Cicero

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
Dr. David M. Burns

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
Garry Marshall

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Andrew V. Mason

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Jack Canfield