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People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
Sep 21, 2025
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.
When things get tough... Make good art.
When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.
My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation. In that moment [when finished 2nd in the 200 meter race in the 2008 Olympic games] I was just completely devastated. I mean, I had worked so hard; that was my opportunity. And she was just able to turn it around for me. She helped me to be able to see the other side of things and that this is not the end for me. She's just an amazing supporter and an encouraging person and she has a unique ability to do that. And so those are the kind of things she said to me in that moment and over the next four years. When things get tough, she's always been my strength.
When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.
Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Be your best you, and when things get tough always know that you can hand it all over to the universe and it will support you.
When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
I think the most important thing is to stay hopeful, to believe wonderful things are possible and do your best. Basically, to not give up when things get tough, and to learn to truly enjoy and appreciate life, with everything that it brings.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.