Getting Through Tough Times Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas A. Edison, Elizabeth Gilbert, Carl Sandburg, Maya Angelou, Tom Hodgkinson and many others.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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!
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
