Hard Times Quotes - Page 7

• The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Anxiety, Mind

  Twitter post from May 04, 2015

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• Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that's when they appear.

  Drake

  Needs, Heard

  Song: Too Much, 2013

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• The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

  Jeb Bush

  Challenges, Height, Assumption

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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Forever

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

  Sue Augustine

  Past, Yesterday, Mind

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

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• I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.

  Amy Adams

  Mean, Emotional, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

  Sophia Bush

  Inspirational, Girl, Teenager

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• If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Monday

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

  Tony Campolo

  Believe, Twenties, Four

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• The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Heart, Men

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942)

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• Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophy

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• All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Men, Perception

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Courage, Cheer Up, Army

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Golf, Play

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

  Bobby Flay

  Daughter, Mother, Support

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• I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Awkward, Looks

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• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Character, Play, Perception

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview With Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com.

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• I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

  Rashida Jones

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Thinking

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

  Elia Kazan

  Taken, Technique, Might

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• I have a hard time with free time.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Hard, Free Time

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• Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Different, Footballer

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• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  Samuel Lover

  Wise, Glitter, Weak

  Samuel Lover (1839). “Rory O'More. Revised”, p.151

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