quotes about Tough Times
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By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
-- Albert Bandura -
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.
-- Alonzo MourningSource : "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.
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As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
-- Andrew GarfieldSource : "My looks: the unlikely sex symbols" by Chris O'Dowd, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.
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The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.
-- Barack Obama -
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I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.
-- Bella ThorneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.
-- Bow Wow -
That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
-- Brande Roderick -
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
-- Branford Marsalis -
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
-- Branford Marsalis -
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
-- Byron Dorgan -
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.
-- Christian Bale -
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 -
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My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as Im in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.
-- David Harewood -
Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
-- David Ortiz -
Making every record is a process full of tough times.
-- Ezra Koenig -
You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.
-- Glenn McGrath -
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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 EganSource : Greg Egan, Matthew Kressel (2017). “Bifrost n° 88: Spécial Greg Egan”, p.226, Le Bélial
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Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
-- Gregory Peck -
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
-- Hamid Karzai -
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.
-- Hrithik Roshan -
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At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
-- James Douglas, Lord of Douglas -
Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
-- James Surowiecki -
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
-- Jim Rogers -
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.
-- Joan Bauer -
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You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.
-- Joel Osteen -
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.
-- Joel Osteen -
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 -
You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good.
-- Joel Osteen -
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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.
-- Joel Osteen -
That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.
-- Johan Santana -
The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.
-- John BaldoniSource : "Effective Leadership Communications: It's More Than Talk" by John Baldoni, hbr.org. April 1, 2002.
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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
-- John Lithgow -
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I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.
-- Jon Lovitz -
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 -
Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.
-- Josh Peck -
I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.
-- Kelly Osbourne -
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Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
-- Kristi Yamaguchi -
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.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.
-- Lee DeWyze -
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.
-- Lee Greenwood -
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My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
-- Lee Iacocca -
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 -
Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all,
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
-- Marilyn JohnsonSource : Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins
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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 -
Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.
-- Max Lucado -
Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.
-- Max Lucado -
He came third in the state for woodwork,†Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
-- Melina Marchetta -
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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.
-- Michael Phelps -
There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.
-- Miley Cyrus -
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 -
I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
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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 -
We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
-- Paul Allen -
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.
-- Paul Theroux -
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 -
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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.
-- Randy KomisarSource : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.93, Harvard Business Press
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Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
-- Rasheed Ogunlaru -
I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.
-- Richard D. ZanuckSource : "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.
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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 -
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Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
-- Sara BlakelySource : Source: www.seventeen.com
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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 -
All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.
-- Shalane Flanagan -
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 -
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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 -
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
-- Theresa MaySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times
-- Todd BurpoSource : Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.
-- Tom Ford -
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One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.
-- Tony Robbins -
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 ReznorSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.
-- Trot Nixon -
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
-- Vera Nazarian -
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
-- William J. Clinton -
Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.
-- Willie Gallacher -
There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.
-- Frances O'Grady -
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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.
-- Irena A. Hoffman -
I had several moms who knew and didn't bring gifts for the baby and instead brought me food, candles, journals - the women who were like, "Actually, I know this is a tough time for you, and it's much more important that I show up here instead of to the baby shower."
-- June Diane Raphael -
I think the asset management industry, especially in the US, is going through a pretty tough time. If you talk to the CEO of a US asset manager, morale would be at a low, even though stock markets are at almost record levels.
-- Martin Gilbert -
The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.
-- Matt Sorum -
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The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.
-- Steve Goodier -
You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.
-- Tilman J Fertitta -
Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.
-- Ali Babacan -
We can doubt the Lord when we go through tough times, but you know that He's always got your best interest at heart.
-- Mike FisherSource : Source: www.beliefnet.com
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My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.
-- Rob Paulsen -
Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.
-- Ron Ben-Israel -
I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: it dictates the way they behave and sustains them in tough times, of which we've had too many lately.
-- Ron Currie Jr.Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.
-- James Robertson