Getting Through Hard Times Quotes - Page 2

• Why bad things happen to good people

  Harold S. Kushner

  Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

  Rorion Gracie

  Art, Going Through Hard Times, Happens

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Naps, Tough Times

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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

  William Hazlitt

  Motivational, Positive, Teacher

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

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• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Karma, Running

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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• When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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• He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Positive, Crazy

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• 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!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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