Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.
I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.
The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.
My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it’s really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I’ll have my tree up!
I do talk about hard times, but I also try to bring out the light.
Those who were fortunate enough to have the support of their parents or the state must in turn be generous, in solidarity, especially in hard times.
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists’ advertising or recruiting technique.
Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.
I wish I could write more make-believe. It’s a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I’ve never been a private person.
We have to take advantage of the power of football and show solidarity to people who are facing hard times. The fans give us so much love, and we have a responsibility to take that love and project it somewhere important, such as children who are in great need.
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn’t until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
Family comes together when you deal with hard times because it’s the only way you know how to cope.
I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Rocky’, ‘The Set Up’, ‘Fat City and Hard Times’. I just loved those films.
I can’t be alone in saying that humor has gotten me through some hard times in my life.
My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.
I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I’ve luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.
Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready – blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.
When you go through those hard times, that’s when you ask those questions that normally you wouldn’t. If you win, you don’t ask questions. You don’t worry about it.
If you look at anyone’s career, there are times when you have hard times. Even the best players have to struggle through things.
We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home – my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us – on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.
There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
I truly believe that it’s all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that’s what makes you a champion.
Sometimes people have to go through hard times just to get to a happy place.
By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.
Hard times always lead to something great.
Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.
In my life I’ve gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.
I’m happy to work when I’ve worked, and you’ve got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I’m not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, ‘Wow, I have this level of notoriety and… I better get a job.’
I know what hard times are like. I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I’ve had struggles.
The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.
People don’t know the real me. The hard times I went through are what led me to my life now. I was a mess as a teen! I was kind of wild and really unhappy.
When I wasn’t the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.
Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he’d say the same about me.
I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.
Even being a Christian, you go through hard times. But you either go through hard times not having hope or realizing that Jesus is the only hope.
There were a lot of hard times, and having to have a team of people help me out of the bed, having to use a bedpan is a really tough thing to swallow. But looking back, I’m proud of my scars and what myself and my Marines went through in Marjah.
You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
I want people who go through tough times, hard times, or didn’t have everything right-things didn’t fall in their lap or go in their favor-to know that they can still achieve their dream and go to the highest of the highs.
People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.
The only thing that’s helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express – it’s very cathartic for me. I’m hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.
Embrace your fire – even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.
There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
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