Tough Times Quotes

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO.

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.

I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

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.

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.

If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.

When you love something as much as I love bodybuilding you don't have to do much extra to push yourself, it just happens. There were some tough times and when those came up I just used my mental strength to push through knowing that my mind controlled everything.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

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

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

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

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.

I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

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.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

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

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.

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

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

There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Tough times make tough people.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

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