Quotes on Hard Times

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

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

When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

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

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.