Nora Roberts Quotes

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

I'm familiar with adversity.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Learn to eat problems for breakfast

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.