Theresa May
Politician
"In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain."
Tough Times quotes
Tough Times
145 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marilyn Johnson
Author, Journalist
"In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
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"When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies."
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"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
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"I hope you live a life you're proud of..."
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"Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all."
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"In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it."
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"The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor."
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"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same."
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"One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials."
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"When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times."
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"We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there."
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"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us."
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"Affliction is a good man's shining time."
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"I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful."
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"I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things."
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"Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times."
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"If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse."
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"Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail."
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"Tough times teach trust."
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"I think the asset management industry, especially in the US, is going through a pretty tough time. If you talk to the CEO of a US asset manager, morale would be at a low, even though stock markets are at almost record levels."
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