During Tough Times Quotes

#1. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Jennifer Pahlka

#2. We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.

Denis Waitley

#3. I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

Marcus Samuelsson

#4. I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. The Negro people of America ... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#6. Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Billie Holiday

#7. Keep doing the right things in life. Keep your faith and joy during tough times. Difficulty means you are being prepared for takeoff on the runways of life ahead of you!

Timothy Pina

#8. I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

Julianne Hough

#9. Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.

Howard Schultz

#10. On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

James Surowiecki

#11. God is a man of His word, He assures us that we'll succeed in every task, every assignment, every dream, every vision He gives us. And always uses catchphrases for us to cling on during tough times. 'Be strong and courageous' (Joshua 1:6).

Euginia Herlihy

#12. Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

Enzo Ferrari

#13. If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.

Billy Graham

#14. Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

Karen Salmansohn

#15. There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires can also be false; whereas the body, the animal, wants what it wants.

Claire Messud

#16. Schools teach the need to be taught.

Ivan Illich

#17. If your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making.

Sabaa Tahir

#18. 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.

Richard Branson

#19. Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Mark Warner

#20. I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#21. The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

P. Chidambaram

#22. A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

Rahul Dravid

#23. I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

George Whitefield

#24. Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India's constitutional ills.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#25. She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.

R.L. Stine

#26. I started writing more with my voice in mind.

Lucinda Williams

#27. Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#28. During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.

Jeanne Kohl-Welles