Tough Times Quotes - Page 14

• You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.

  Lou Gehrig

  Fall, Eye, People

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

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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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• You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Negative

  "Are You Cultivating Resiliency?" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fear, Failure, Gaps

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Responsibility, Maturity

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Shadow, Together

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• Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Stars, Men

  Andy Andrews (2002). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Rooms

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Tough times for Martha Stewart. Yesterday, Martha Stewart reported to her parole officer and had to take a mandatory urine test for cocaine and marijuana. Martha was found to be drug-free and her urine was found to be a lovely yellow saffron.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Yellow, Yesterday

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• Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

  Mike Oldfield

  Love, Kings, Men

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm a good man with a good heart
  had a tough time, got a rough start
  But I finally learned to let it go.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Men, Good Man

  Song: Shadow Days, Album: Born and Raised, 2012

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• When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

  Vera Nazarian

  Important, Gentle, Pillow

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• I don't know what's waiting for me around the corner and I don't know what else I'm going to be doing in the future - but you've got to enjoy things while you're doing them. There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

  Miley Cyrus

  Waiting, Mountain, Enjoy

  "Miley Cyrus Gives The Lowdown on Hannah Montana: The Movie". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 13, 2009.

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Adversity, Dark, Uplifting In Hard Times

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

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• The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Levels, Shapes, Floyd Mayweather

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• President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, President, Defeat

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

  Greg Egan

  May, Stranger, Imagine

  Greg Egan, Matthew Kressel (2017). “Bifrost n° 88: Spécial Greg Egan”, p.226, Le Bélial

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• Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

  Todd Burpo

  Laughter, Way, Sometimes

  Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Book, Pay, Way

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• The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Years, Joy

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• You have to love what you do. Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn't passionate about what they're doing. People who love what they're doing don't give up. It's never even a consideration. It's a pretty simple formula.

  Donald Trump

  Giving Up, Passion, Don't Give Up

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