Bad Times Quotes
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- A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face.~ Somali Proverb
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.~ Horace
- All things grow with time — except grief.~ Jewish Proverb
- A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.~ Louis L’Amour
- A man who cries all the time is not heard.~ African Proverb
- A stitch in time saves nine.~ Traditional Proverb
- Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.~ Scottish Proverb
- Better ruined ten times than dead once.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Better ten times ill than one time dead.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Better to blush once than pale a hundred times.~ Serbian Proverb
- Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you’re dead.~ Spanish Proverb
- Fall seven times, stand up eight.~ Japanese Proverb
- Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times. ~ Robert Quinlin
- Hours are Time’s shafts, and one comes winged with death.~ Scottish Proverb
- If it weren’t for sorrow and bad times, every day would be Christmas.~ Lithuanian Proverb
- If the time has passed, there is no point in preparing.~ Yemeni Proverb
- If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when times go bad.~ Mary Kay Ash
- If you are in the house of a friend, bad times are soon forgotten.~ Albanian Proverb
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.~ Chinese Proverb
- If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.~ Arabian Proverb
- I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.~ Lee Iacocca
- In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.~ Bruce Barton quotes
- In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times.~ Author Unknown
- In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.~ John Leonard
- In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.~ German Proverb
- In times of emergency the devil eats flies.~ German Proverb
- In times of famine no bread is stale.~ Catalonian Proverb
- In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.~ English Proverb
- In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.~ Traditional Proverb
- In wartime no sweets are given out.~ Spanish Proverb
- I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.~ Billy Joel
- Love is sometimes difficult but death even more so.~ Albanian Proverb
- Measure three times before you cut once.~ Traditional Proverb
- Never spend time with people who don’t respect you.~ New Zealander Proverb
- People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by.~ Vietnamese Proverb
- Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.~ Harold Lindsell
- Slow fires will smolder for a long time.~ Thai Proverb
- Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.~ Ojibway Indian Proverb
- Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.~ T. S. Eliot
- Sometimes you have to sacrifice your beard in order to save your head.~ Iraqi Proverb
- Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the Smoke.~ Greek Proverb
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.~ Chinese Proverb
- The cure for bad times is patience.~ Arabian Proverb
- The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.~ Indian Proverb
- The person who is tired will find time to sleep.~ Traditional Proverb
- There’s plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives.~Yiddish Proverb
- There are bad times, but thats okay, just look for the love in it, don’t burn the day away.~ Dave Matthews Band
- There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.~ Jules Renard
- There is always lots of time to die and to pay.~ Catalonian Proverb
- Time destroys all things.~ Dutch Proverb
- Time has strong teeth.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success becomes an accident and failure seemed the only truth? ~ Lillian Hellman
- When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.~ Vietnamese Proverb
- When the vine entwines your roof, it is time to cut it down.~ Cameroonian Proverb
- When you die, your sister’s tears will dry as time goes on, your widow’s tears will end in another’s arms, but your mother will mourn you until the day she dies.~ Arabian Proverb
- You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.~ Bulgarian Proverb
- You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.~ Japanese Proverb
- You sometimes forget the harm that was done to you, but never the harm you have done to others.~ Sanskrit Proverb
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