When Tough Times Come Quotes

#1. Bad things happen to everyone. No one by their behavior can store up any immunity from disaster or tragedy. All any of us can control is how we respond when tough times come. This does not diminish God or his sovereignty in my mind.

Janice Cantore

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

Vera Nazarian

#3. 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

#4. Throughout my life, even when times were tough, I never stopped buying books. Or, come to think of it, booze. My library is dusty and well stocked. My liver is well worn.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#5. Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough times worth working through. What I felt for this man took my breath away.

Meredith Wild

#6. Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Sarah Dessen

#7. You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

LL Cool J

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

Billy Graham

#9. He came third in the state for woodwork,"
Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

Melina Marchetta

#10. I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny ... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

Demetri Martin

#11. God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

John Bytheway

#12. 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.

#13. You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

Tilman J. Fertitta

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Jesse Jackson