Hard Times Quotes

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.

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

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

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

I have a hard time with free time.

I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

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

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.