Top 1200 Hard Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

I eat exactly three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I sit quietly for 20 minutes without anybody disturbing me, and I chew each mouthful 60 times.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

This is a crazy game we play. You're going to have those times you can't get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.

There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.

I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

Stick out the bad times because there's always good times coming up. When you come out on the other side, it's amazing.

I don't care if I have to run 100 times or pass it 100 times, ... Whatever it takes to win is all that matters to me.

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.

They [in the New York Times] are really, really bad people. The largest shareholder in the Times is Carlos Slim.

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.

I go by my instinct in selecting scripts for my banner. Some times it works and some times it does not.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised us that this will never change.

The Mets have shied away from that iconic club because they don't want the current one exposed to that hard-partying culture which, while well-documented, has also been somewhat exaggerated at times. The guys from that championship team are older and more mature now and can warn the current Mets about some of the pitfalls of fame.

When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpayers' money like we would use our own. We're holding in the reins during good times so we're prepared during bad times.