Bad Times Quotes

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Kindness, Future

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• To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

  Howard Zinn

  Kindness, Future, Sacrifice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

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

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

  John Green

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Pain

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• When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

  Ann Landers

  Loyalty, Love Is, Mutual Benefit

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

  William Hazlitt

  Motivational, Positive, Teacher

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

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• In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

  Bruce Barton

  Business, Humor, People

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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace

  Change, Heart, Adversity

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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mood Changes, Fortune, Good And Bad

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Good Life, Preparation, Life Is

  "Wherefore Ye Must Press Forward". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 32, 1977.

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• I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

  Lee Iacocca

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

  Billy Joel

  Way, Good Times, Trouble

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• Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Political, Politics

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• Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

  Scott Hall

  Dream, Hard Work, Wwe

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