Top 1200 Through Hard Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

I think an actor is very like a sportsman. 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.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn't look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I've been given, I've taken.

I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

We're going to have tough times. We're going to have five-game losing streaks. Everybody goes through it.

Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

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.

It is not easy for a dancer to be accepted as an actor. But I worked my way up through hard work and by God's grace.

Every soul who comes to earth with a leg or two at birth must wrestle his opponents knowing its not what is, but what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whats? probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.

I had chances to leave Inter, but this is my home. I stayed here even in times of difficulty and I was always sure that the winds of change would come through.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

To be persistent and to have courage is important to get through difficult times and to achieve what you want to achieve.

The family are the people who see you day in day out through all the bad times as well.

Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day

Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.

Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process?"

Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play hard. Yes, you can say play hard, but that really means, keep working hard, right?

The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

At times you've got to be patient, and that's it. I just take it; another good training week, train hard and train strong, look to perform there and hopefully start at the weekend.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

I am glad that my fan believed in me and stood by me in my hard times and continued to enjoy my songs. That's the real victory for me.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

When I am going through something monumental or difficult in my life it is hard to look at it as it is because it is too much.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

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.

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 times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Divorce alone is a very hard thing to go through, and having the public weigh in on it makes it worse.

I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

I've learned to separate my fears from my intuition and, at times, to follow my intuition through the fear.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

It's hard to escape bullies that come in many shapes and forms. The processed food industry, corrupt religious organizations, and celebrity worship culture are just a few that we deal with in modern times.

I'm a guy who struggled to get to where he is, and only through hard work and dedication have I been able to find my success.