Tough Times Quotes

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”
― Sarah Dessen

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder

“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“He came third in the state for woodwork,”
Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

“Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪”
― Carlos A. Rodriguez, Designed For Inheritance: A Discovery of Sonship

“YOU MAY HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS NOW,
BUT ONLY IN TOUGH TIMES,
WILL YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL ONES
ARE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Be strong. Even when you can't be.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“The tough times we human beings go through, are meant to change us into better
people.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.”
― Harshvardhan Malpani

“Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.”
― Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

“No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on! Once you have life, know that God is alive!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar

“Tough times are like a mirror; shows you your true powers.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“The shallow measure a person by their glorious victories. Those with character measure a character by their tragedies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Friends with Darkness (The Sonnet)

Most dread the very notion of dark,
Darkness strikes horror in their heart.
Yet darkness gives me a sense of calm,
I feel quite at home when in dark.
Darkness makes me alive,
Darkness gives me flight.
Darkness makes me aware,
Of the tiniest glint of light.
Darkness electrifies my dampened veins,
It pours back my nerves with vigor.
Just when everything seems to fall apart,
The mind awakens with unforeseen power.
So, never try to keep darkness at bay.
Once befriended darkness takes you a long way.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“There have been times when fear crippled all my senses. I let the tears run, but did not withhold my footsteps.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Birds never know if the sun will rise,
yet they sing everyday right before dawn.
And sure enough the sun emerges,
defeating the most ominous mourn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Tough times in life are not meant to define you, but to refine and strengthen you.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II

“Where there is wound, there is light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Moments. Just moments, one after the other. You only have to hold it together for one moment at a time.”
― Vikki Wakefield

“When you are friends with your storm, you dance, instead of getting blown away.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“When you are lost in the dark, remember the darkness of the night, and how it helps to make the stars shine.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“He had every right to be hardened by the cards life had dealt him but he had a heart as soft as clouds”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The tougher the going gets, the closer He normally gets”
― Lucas D. Shallua

“You're likely to learn more in tough times, unlike in good times.”
― douglaskiogoraquotes

“No one’s life was completely perfect, and the human mind had a way of whispering damaging things to a person that were entirely unfair.”
― Jessie Newton, The Seafaring Girls

“All oblivious to my dreams, and to my state of struggle:
some would greet me, smiling at me.
But some laughed the hardest, laughing at me.
Some would express pity,
while some expressed sympathy.
Some would pretend that I wasn't even there.
And those who ignored me equalled my presence to that of the debris.”
― Mitta Xinindlu