Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
—Scottish Proverb
You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.
—Japanese 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.
—Arabic Proverb
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
—Japanese Proverb
If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when times go bad.
—Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Hours are Time’s shafts, and one comes winged with death.
—Scottish Proverb
Better ten times ill than one time dead.
—Yiddish Proverb
When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.
—Vietnamese 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 (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.
—German Proverb
The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.
—Indian Proverb
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 Loengard (1934–2020) American Photographer
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 (1924–2019) American Businessperson
People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
—T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
All things grow with time—except grief.
—Yiddish Proverb
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the Smoke.
—Greek Proverb
The person who is tired will find time to sleep.
—Common Proverb
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
—Common Proverb
In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times.
—Unknown
Measure three times before you cut once.
—Common Proverb
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
—Lillian Hellman (1905–84) American Dramatist, Memoirist
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 (b.1949) American Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
—Hebrew Proverb
In wartime no sweets are given out.
—Spanish Proverb
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
—James Howell (c.1593–1666) Anglo-Welsh Writer, Historian
A man who cries all the time is not heard.
—African Proverb
Time destroys all things.
—Dutch Proverb
The cure for bad times is patience.
—Arabic Proverb
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