Quotes on Hard Times

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.