Top 100 Quotes About Bad Times
#1. Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.
Will Rogers
#2. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.
Aaron Rowand
#3. Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#5. A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.
Tonya Hurley
#6. Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.
Oprah Winfrey
#7. A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
Amish Tripathi
#9. There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
Chris Pine
#10. My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson
#11. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
#12. Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.
Sara Sheridan
#13. But if there's one thing Dad's bad times have taught me, it's this: I never, ever want to have anything I can't survive without.
Rebecca Podos
#14. I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Nancy Greene
#15. Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings
#16. life would be perfect if girls had a mute button, guys had an delete button, bad times had a fast forward button, and good times had a pause button.
Julie Stone
#17. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#18. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
#19. But their mother was the family's heartbeat. Always she was at the center of their good and bad times, lending perspective or a kind word or a shoulder to cry on.
Karen Kingsbury
#20. Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.
Levon Helm
#22. Bad times can make you bitter or better.
John Wooden
#23. Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.
Tommy Cotton
#24. In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
Walt Disney
#25. Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.
Louis Auchincloss
#26. We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
Mercedes Lackey
#27. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Lee Iacocca
#28. Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
Joe Torre
#29. It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper connection with the audience that way.
Aziz Ansari
#30. I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
Glenn Hughes
#31. I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
Marat Safin
#32. You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
Robin Williams
#33. Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.
Trevor Linden
#34. I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.
Billy Joel
#35. Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that's great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day
Roger Meddows Taylor
#36. Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Danny Glover
#37. Sometimes it takes a lot of really bad times all lined up in a row before you get yourself together to start having some good ones.
C.J. Berry
#38. We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
Freeman Dyson
#39. Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control ...
Cole Porter
#40. The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)
David Baldacci
#41. Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#42. The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.
Seth Klarman
#43. When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#44. These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.
Hunter S. Thompson
#45. It is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth." - Ratan Tata
Suresh Lulla
#46. In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.
Suzanne Collins
#47. The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?
Michael Winter
#48. Life isn't worth living unless you have someone to share it with, Jacqueline. The good times, and the bad times. In sickness and in health. Even toward the end, she could still make my heart flutter when I looked at her.
J.A. Konrath
#49. Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.
Jeffrey Lewis
#50. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.
Corrie Ten Boom
#52. I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.
Marion Barry
#53. Some preliminary conversation, he said, You look like you're in a good place, despite the bad times I understand you've been through.
Spencer Johnson
#54. There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can.
Carlos Delgado
#55. Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!
Martin O'Neill
#56. Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
J.K. Rowling
#57. There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.
Michael Ealy
#59. Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
Peter Kreeft
#60. Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
Dick Vitale
#61. The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
Jeff Lindsay
#62. In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
John Leonard
#63. The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?
Erma Bombeck
#64. We live in bad times. People do harm to those they don't understand. There is nothing worse than a closed mind and the blind trust that you are the only person to be right.
Leora Cika Waldman
#65. In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.
David Brin
#66. I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.
Justin Trudeau
#67. It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.
Jeffrey Fry
#68. I want you to know God, but not because you've made some sort of bargain or deal with Him. You must seek His face because you want to know the Lord and because you want the Lord to be part of your life through all times, not just bad times.
Darlene Franklin
#69. God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.
Patrick Suskind
#70. You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
Don Nelson
#71. There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.
Auliq Ice
#72. And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
Jerry Spinelli
#73. We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.
Sam Owen
#74. You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.
Jimi Westbrook
#75. 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
#76. In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.
Tad Williams
#77. Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures!
P.M. Steffen
#78. People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
Jason Calacanis
#79. What's hard is not having that hope. I can't imagine going through bad times without that peace. Without that surrender, life just eats you up. Spits you out. Wears you down to nothing.
Jenny B. Jones
#80. The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
Davy Jones
#81. One really important thing is to have good friends and family that will be there to help you when the hard times come. Because bad times do come, for everyone, at some point. The good part is, the bad times don't last forever.
Dave Smalley
#82. Life is a mess, there is trouble around every corner. But Jesus gives us peace and rest in the good and the bad times.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#83. When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.
Michael Dorn
#84. It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#85. I was working, but I didn't have anything like enough to do, and the bad times came in the evenings, when I went back to my room, sat on the couch and watched the world outside me going on through glass, a light bulb at a time.
Olivia Laing
#86. In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.
Sharad Pawar
#87. Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
Nick Hornby
#88. Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
Rob Sheffield
#89. Nothing easy was ever worth fighting for. Every relationship has its ups and downs. But when you can make it through the bad times together, you always come out stronger. It just depends how bad you want to make it work. You have to fight.
Tiffany Aleman
#90. Well, she sure don't hold the deed on grief and loss, son. We all been mussed and mauled by bad times. But that girl's done gone and shut down. I met gray people with more personality." She tapped her temple with a finger. "I'm beginning to suspect there ain't nobody home.
Jonathan Maberry
#91. People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles.
Jose Carreras
#92. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
Bruce Barton
#93. Good friends are priceless. You get to know who they are when they stick by you in good and bad times!
Abigal Muchecheti
#94. Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
Naguib Mahfouz
#95. Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's all about the friend who comes and stands by your side in bad times.
Charles M. Schulz
#96. For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.
Damien Hirst
#97. What is love?
Love is trust. The belief that someone will not leave me for the world,will be there beside me in good and bad times, and will love me,when i would have nothing to offer him.
Sachin Garg
#98. The music kicks in and maybe the bad times kick out and maybe the world's a little better for them than it was before.
Cath Crowley
#99. That's the thing people never warn you about with breakups. It's the good times that really get you. In fact, they hurt worse than the bad times.
Ernessa T. Carter
#100. Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
William Forsyth Sharpe
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