Top 1200 Hard Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

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

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.

I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.

I could endure hard times thanks to my fans that stood by me. I decided that I wouldn't disappoint them.

I mean they [ Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis] are both just really good guys and also they're both extremely funny in very unique ways. We made each other laugh an awful lot, and that goes a long way. And we also went through some hard times. I mean it was hard to make this movie [The Hangover].

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living; Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

Sometimes people have to go through hard times just to get to a happy place.

I can't be alone in saying that humor has gotten me through some hard times in my life.

It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It's hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see those intentions, or maybe it's hard to portray them on film in a way that doesn't sound too preachy or irrelevant. So instead of saying it out loud, you say it multiple times in the movie by hiding it. You get a sensation after you see the whole film throughout yourself.

When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.

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

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

You have times when you are extremely happy, times of testing, and times of trial, but the Lord guides you through all of those growth experiences together.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

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

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Family comes together when you deal with hard times because it's the only way you know how to cope.

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.

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

This business is hard. People and producers and studios and finance guys get caught up in saying, "Women don't sell movies," or "This person doesn't sell foreign," or "You have to attach guys first," or "People don't want to see women do this." I've heard those things so many times that I've actually heard myself say them, a number of times.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.

It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas.

It's hard to gain respect in fashion, especially if you're coming from social media, so it's been challenging at times.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you’ll probably smile and say, “I lived a very fun life

Sometimes, you have tough times when you don't score goals, but the most important thing is to keep working hard.