Trying Times Quotes

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
― Abigail Adams

“At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.”
― Germany Kent

“Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“the severe pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“If God makes you wander, keep calm, don’t worry and go by His rules for He will surely show you what will make you wonder!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It is during the most trying times in life that we get to see who our real friends are.”
― Germany Kent

“In reality, the toxic of examinations don’t really matter! It is, however, the lens with which we look at examinations that determines how the examinations of life rule us or how we are able overcome the hardships of life examinations with a good understanding.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Toxic In The Mind: daily use of the mind that kills you slowly

“The shimmering tarmac of the deserted basketball court, a line of industrial-sized garbage cans, and beyond the electrified perimeter fence a vista that twangs a country and western chord of self-pity in me. For a brief moment, when I first arrived, I thought of putting a photo of Alex - Laughing Alpha Male at Roulette Wheel - next to my computer, alongside my family collection: Late Mother Squinting Into Sun on Pebbled Beach, Brother Pierre with Postpartum Wife and Male Twins, and Compos Mentis Father Fighting Daily Telegraph Crossword. But I stopped myself. Why give myself a daily reminder of what I have in every other way laid to rest? Besides, there would be curiosity from colleagues, and my responses to their questions would seem either morbid or tasteless or brutal depending on the pitch and role of my mood. Memories of my past existence, and the future that came with it, can start as benign, Vaselined nostalgia vignettes. But they’ll quickly ghost train into Malevolent noir shorts backlit by that great worst enemy of all victims of circumstance, hindsight. So for the sake of my own sanity, I apologize silently to Alex before burying him in the desk alongside my emergency bottle of Lauphroaig and a little homemade flower press given to me by a former patient who hanged himself with a clothesline.
The happy drawer.”
― Liz Jensen, The Rapture

“The darkest hour precedes a great future.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu