Times Are Tough Quotes

#1. Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Pat Summitt

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

Kelley Armstrong

#3. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

William J. Clinton

#4. I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.

Tony La Russa

#5. I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

Michelle M. Pillow

#6. When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

#7. The first thing I learned is when times are tough, you need to hedge your bets - you need to diversify.

Donald Trump

#8. When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

Michael Hyatt

#9. I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

Jarvis Cocker

#10. One of my three mottos: When times are tough, be more generous.

John Oehler

#11. Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism

Tony Blair

#12. 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

#13. When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

William J. Clinton

#14. When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

John Ridley

#15. 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

#16. VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

Martin Winterkorn

#17. Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

Chelsea Handler

#18. Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ ... "
(Rapunzel glares)
"Prin ... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

Shannon Hale

#19. Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

John C. Maxwell

#20. All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Gayle Forman

#21. Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

Jack Canfield

#22. There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through.

Mike Dooley

#23. In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

Lucy Powell

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

Anthony Robbins

#27. 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

#28. When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

Dan Harmon

#29. You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.

Karen Salmansohn

#30. You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience.
Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiating with people who are sitting around in their underwear.

Julie James

#31. Life is, at times, tough ...
And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it ...

Sanhita Baruah

#32. 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 Mourning

#33. This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Shaquille O'Neal

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!

Shigesato Itoi

#37. 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

#38. I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

Carlos Ghosn

#39. I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.

Christine Lagarde

#40. 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

#41. You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.

Tim Tebow

#42. These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

Lucy Powell

#43. We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.

George Pataki

#44. 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

#45. These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

James McNerney

#46. I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Dr. Seuss

#47. Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times

Laurie Ostby Kehler

#48. There are times like that, Bailey. Times you
don't think you can take it anymore. But then you discover that you
can. You always do. You're tough. You'll take a deep breath,
swallow just a little bit more, endure just a little longer, and
eventually you'll get your second wind,

Amy Harmon

#49. I was a hard-times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But hey, tough times don't last and tough people do. And can I tell you that Virginians are tough people? We are tough people.

Tim Kaine

#50. A November, 2012 article in India Times claims software developers are obsolete by age 40. That's a tough age to start a new career.

Robert Oshana

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#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. 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

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

Stephen King

#62. 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

#63. Because you see, when you're a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength.
And when your life spins out of control, it's as if their lives are tied to your own and will come crashing down with yours.

Nessie Q.

#64. My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm 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

#65. When you face tough times but keep on going; when you're discouraged and doubtful, but still show up; when you are not sure of what to do, but you give it you best anyway--you will, in the end, succeed. Just be willing to do whatever it takes.

Mo Anderson

#66. 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

#67. It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together.

Colette McBeth

#68. Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

Brandon Jennings

#69. The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

John Baldoni

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

Karen Salmansohn

#71. I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

Bill Kurtis

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

Billy Graham

#73. Everyone is going through tough times. The irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is harder than what you are. Life isn't about surviving these things, it's about understanding this- We are all struggling.

Jose N. Harris

#74. Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#75. People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy." I know I can tell them that because I went through a lot of hard times. I had a choice of either succumbing to the hard times or figuring it out.

Bonnie St. John

#76. Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

Andrew Sullivan

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

Karen Salmansohn

#78. Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind.

Fennel Hudson

#79. These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

Harold Ford Jr.

#80. We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

Woodrow Wilson

#81. The tough times we human beings go through, are meant to change us into better
people.

Ellen J. Barrier

#82. You are not alone. You are not being singled out by the fates to suffer.

Karen Salmansohn