Hard Times Quotes

This is the time that tries men’s souls, and many probably will be found wanting.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

Tough times call for tougher decisions.

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

Bad times don't last, bad guys do.

I believe that no matter what you believe, you're going to go through hard times.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

When things just get bad you can't quit, you just have to keep fighting.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I always knew she was being funny, but when I tell my therapist that my mom played the trust game with me and let me fall on the ground, my therapist does not find that funny. She's like, "That's the reason for everything! That's why you have such a hard time with trust!" And I'm like, "I don't really have a hard time with trust. I thought it was funny."

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.