Quotes About Really Tough Times

#1. Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand.

Tracy Pollan

#2. 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

#3. Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#4. With every morsel I ate, I looked into her eyes and apologised for not being able to feed her enough. Her eyes, in turn, apologised for not being able to help me in these tough times.

Ashay Abbhi

#5. When times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Kelley Armstrong

#6. 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

#7. I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

Gregory Hines

#8. When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying, restorative and life-changing. It was something that "got you through the tough times," which "any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity." God was a trip to Cancun.

Marisha Pessl

#9. In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.

Chelsea Handler

#10. We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.

Marisa Calin

#11. I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.

David Letterman

#12. A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.

David Ragan

#13. Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Hillary Clinton

#14. This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

John Podesta

#15. When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

Barack Obama

#16. Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

Stephen King

#17. Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#18. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Ehud Olmert

#19. These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Paul Harvey

#20. The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Paul Gascoigne

#21. My fans firstly [inspire me]. They make me want to be a better person and really motivate me when times get tough. Also Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and, oddly enough, hubcaps.

Ashley Rickards

#22. To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me in a lot of ways. It's helped me get through some tough times.' That's the best compliment that you could get.

Kip Moore

#23. Thinking you've lost everything when times are tough only proves to how little you pay attention to what you really have.

A.M. Sawyer

#24. A lot of the pain you are dealing with right now is really just your thoughts.

Karen Salmansohn

#25. I like to be very consistent with workouts and getting a good amount of sleep. I've really been enjoying Pilates lately. It's actually really tough to fit in my schedule, but if I can get in a workout three times a week while we're shooting, that feels right. Any more seems to deplete my energy.

Darby Stanchfield

#26. I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

Chase Utley

#27. That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

Daniel Okrent

#28. Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

Derek Sivers

#29. I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Judith Hill

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

John C. Maxwell

#31. Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

Queen Latifah

#32. Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

David Plotz

#33. 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

#34. I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Joel Osteen

#35. 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

#36. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Quentin Bryce

#37. It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

Max Lucado

#38. The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

Kim Young-ha

#39. 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

#40. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

Fred Rogers

#41. I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

Anna Quindlen

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

Mark Lanegan

#43. Markets need not be in sync with one another. Simultaneously, the bond market can be priced for sustained tough times, the equity market for a strong recovery, and gold for high inflation. Such an apparent disconnect is indefinitely sustainable.

Seth Klarman

#44. 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 Komisar

#45. 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

#46. In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Jesse Jackson

#47. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

Anthony Liccione

#48. When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

Vera Nazarian

#49. Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

Jennifer Lee

#50. Music had been his undoing, he told the boy in ironic self-deprecation. His bane and his salvation. It had gotten him through tough times that would have otherwise been unbearable and it had made everything else he had gone at twice as hard.

William Gay

#51. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Robert H. Schuller

#52. Don't discount your angst. Don't discount the tough times, being broke, being unhappy or even disappointed. This are the things great stories are made of.

Lakeshia Poole

#53. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

#54. Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

Cristela Alonzo

#55. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.

Sandra Lee

#56. What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

Iyanla Vanzant

#57. Hard times don't last, darlin'. But hard people do. You gotta hang tough.

Julie Ann Walker

#58. When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Allen Klein

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey

#62. You know what's sexy? A person who's been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!

Karen Salmansohn

#63. I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Matt Holliday

#64. It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

Sumner Redstone