Quotes About Rough Times

#1. My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

Shirley Knight

#2. The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Dan Quayle

#3. Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

Gagan Narang

#4. When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

Randy Neugebauer

#5. It is not the rough times endured that define your relationship, it's how you deal with them and bounce back.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

Ian MacKaye

#7. Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.

Jenny Lewis

#8. Listen, Sean," Dani says. "I need you to do something. My treatment isn't over yet, and my mom and I still have rough times ahead. We need people we can really rely on. So think about whether you can be that person. If you're going to be into my mother, be really into her.

Janet Ruth Young

#9. On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.

Liang Chow

#10. These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Lou Reed

#11. We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

Mattie Stepanek

#12. In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

Gail Sheehy

#13. We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,

Bethany Hamilton

#14. The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#15. Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself!

Neon Hitch

#16. Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

Shannon Miller

#17. I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times ... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

Jonathan Cain

#18. The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

Ed O'Brien

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Annette Vaillancourt

#20. I just want people to feel like they can achieve something great in their lives. We all go through rough times, but love is the antidote. You've got to dream and just believe in yourself. And if you believe, you will achieve it.

Common

#21. Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

Norman Vincent Peale

#22. I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

Patti Smith

#23. The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

Nate Parker

#24. Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.

Keith Shaver

#25. We all have rough times in our lives tears, anger, and more. We have the tools to prepare for them times before they come like studying, memorizing the word, keep God in our lives and believing God's promises.

Amanda Penland

#26. People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

Eve Ensler

#27. God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

Joyce Meyer

#28. Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Lloyd Bridges

#29. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

#30. A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

Bobby Bowden

#31. The best literary device I got from my people was their talk, rough, earthy, salty speech that starts dancing on me sometimes, crying on me other times whether I like it or not.

Mairtin O Cadhain

#32. You're not the only one who feels like splitting when times get rough, baby, but from now on, I won't let you run anywhere if I'm not right there running beside you.

Tillie Cole

#33. I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times ... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is.

Louise Boyd

#34. I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go.

John Mayer

#35. All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

Vincent Van Gogh

#37. I was just sort of moving through time.

Patty Duke

#38. Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

Joe Bradley

#39. Hair-braiding salons and mystic shops littered the block, but she didn't need a psychic to predict her cards read "royally screwed.

Katherine McIntyre

#40. Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?

Neal Boortz

#41. I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

Helen Gurley Brown

#42. Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Whitey Ford

#43. When times get rough, keep your head up.

CC Sabathia

#44. A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

John Hartford

#45. We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish in this remarkable ride.

Domhnall Gleeson

#46. All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.

Jennifer McMahon

#47. We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.

Dean Koontz

#48. When times are rough,I like to remember the old saying - Whatever doesn't kill you, might just come back to finish the job.

A.G. Claymore

#49. Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

Walter Schloss

#50. There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

James Bobin

#51. May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.

Geraldine Solon

#52. Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Peter Kreeft

#53. No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

Henry Rollins

#54. Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Dick Francis

#55. Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Jonny Lang

#56. Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Pope John XXIII

#57. Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...

Fay Weldon

#58. Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Terry Pratchett

#59. Like I said - I wasn't stupid. Rough around the edges maybe, definitely a little perverted at times, but never stupid. I was a survivor. I'd damn well survive this.

Elle Jasper

#60. When times are rough and people predict the end of the world, remember that short-term uncertainty provides to the keen investor many long-term opportunities

Amir Avitzur

#61. I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

Angela Merkel

#62. Don't worry. I don't plan on making homelessness my career.

Katherine McIntyre

#63. Risotto is one of those dishes you just have to try a few times yourself, to teach yourself the moves and sounds and smells and textures. This is a guide map, but kind of a rough and tattered one.

Shauna Niequist

#64. You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Kenneth Edmonds

#65. Bemused and besotted as we are, we still dimly know at heart that nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself.

C.S. Lewis

#66. They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.

Thomas A Kempis

#67. I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

J.K. Rowling

#68. The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

Nate Berkus

#69. When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#70. [2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.

Christina Aguilera

#71. I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Jack Kirby

#72. Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

Robert McKee

#73. I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

Bill Burr

#74. My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

LZ Granderson

#75. As many times as I want," Drake told her, voice rough and dark. "Until you can't breathe without feeling me on every inch of your body.

Cynthia Eden