Quotes & Sayings About Being Strong Through Bad Times

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise. — Taite Adams

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you are excited of an idea that no one else, all that should matter to you is focus. Progressive thinkers are driven by their interests, not whether others are interested. — Santosh Avvannavar

Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain it's like rocket fuel. Right now you could run faster and you can fight harder. You can jump higher than ever in your life and you are so alert it's like you can slow down time.
What's wrong with scared? Scared is a superpower! Your superpower! There is danger in this room. And guess what? It's you. Do you feel it? Do you think he feels it? Do you think he's scared? Nah. Loser! — Steven Moffat

They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons. — Maria McErlane

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it? — Eddie Izzard

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory. — David Byrne

Some people thought spring was the time of renewal, but Sadie had always equated that feeling with autumn. It felt like a shedding of mistakes - falling leaves, crisp breezes. As if you could cast off an old skin to work on a new one. — Cerella Sechrist

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. — Terry Pratchett

In the past we assumed it was out of a woman's control" whether or not she had a child. "Now we think it's her choice, so we can blame her. — Lauren Sandler

On the morning of September 17, together with Mrs. Washington and my three children, I started for Atlanta. I felt a good deal as I suppose a man feels when he is on his way to the gallows. In passing through the town of Tuskegee I met a white farmer who lived some distance out in the country. In a jesting manner this man said: "Washington, you have spoken before the Northern white people, the Negroes in the South, and to us country white people in the South; but Atlanta, to-morrow, you will have before you the Northern whites, the Southern whites, and the Negroes all together. I am afraid that you have got yourself in a tight place." This farmer diagnosed the situation correctly, but his frank words did not add anything to my comfort. — Booker T. Washington

But a strange thing happened when a man reached the place he was trying to get. His thinking set, like a churn of milk gone to butter. — Julia Franks

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings. — Nina Nastasia

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through. — Ani DiFranco