Tough Times Quotes - Page 9

• I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

  Eric Roth

  Inspirational, Short Life, Buttons

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Chocolate, Ribs

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Chocolate, Cookies

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• Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Crumbling, Ruins

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.

  David Beckham

  Soccer, Tough

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• With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Littles, Influence

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, wow, that's a really wonderful man.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Mom, Husband, Father

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

  Andrew Garfield

  Kids, Men, Spiders

  "My looks: the unlikely sex symbols" by Chris O'Dowd, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

  Pavel Datsyuk

  Space, Russia, Guy

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• A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

  Branford Marsalis

  Musician, Hearing, Trios

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• Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

  Donald Trump

  Trying, Wonderful, Should

  "What I've Learned: Donald Trump" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

  Mark Lanegan

  Suicidal, Tough

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• I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

  Ricky Schroder

  School, Kids, Talking

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• If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen - ever - that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Hard Times, Opportunity

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• When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

  Sergey Brin

  Real, Innovation, Valleys

  "Google's Schmidt, Page and Brin Hold Court at Zeitgeist". Interview with Jessica Guynn, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Thank God

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

  Trent Reznor

  Needed, Therapy, Has Beens

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

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• I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

  Joseph P. Kennedy III

  Today, Congressman, My Own

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• Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

  Chuck Knox

  Fate, Hands, Tough

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• I think I’m his biggest fan. Like, I’m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. I’m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.

  Lea Michele

  Sorry, Thinking, Numbers

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