950 Inspiring Leadership Quotes For Tough Times (2023)

1. “All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet.” ― Marjory Sheba

2. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy

3. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” ~ Greg Kincaid

4. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

5. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” –John C. Maxwell

6. Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. — Coco Chanel

7. “There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” — Charles F. Kettering

8. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”—Robert H. Schuller

9. “Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves.” ~ Corrie ten Boom

10. “365 Days 365 Opportunities – every day, do something that will inch you closer towards a better tomorrow.”! ???

11. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, and author

12. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” — Benjamin Franklin

13. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” — Leroy Eimes

14. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” — William Samuel Johnson

15. “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.”

16. “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy

17. “Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.” ― Tom Robbins

18. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” – Edgar Allan Poe

19. “Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.” – Timothy Keller

20. “When the leadership job is finished, the people will say, “we did it ourselves” - Lao Tsu

21. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” - Jack Welch

22. “I don’t know if I’ve had my share of drama, but I’ve definitely had my share of hard times.” — Serena Williams

23. “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within strength, courage and dignity.” – Ruby Dee

24. “Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.” — Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder and CEO of Asana.

25. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

26. “You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.” – Tilman J. Fertitta

27. “If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen” — Jim Davis creator of Garfield

28. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” –Nancy D. Solomon

29. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Bob Marley

30. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

31. Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise. — Anurag Prakash Ray

32. “What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.” — Roy T. Bennett

33. “Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” – Francis Bacon

34. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley

35. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” ~ Jodi Picoult

36. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.” – Steve Martin, ‘Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life’

37. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” — Robert Downey Jr

38. “When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.” –

39. “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” — Paulo Coelho

40. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

41. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” - Lao Tzu

42. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” –John C. Maxwell

43. “If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.” – Katy Perry

44. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

45. “Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.” – Frances Rodman

46. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

47. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown

48. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy

49. “Hard times, when held with open hands and a tender heart, can prepare us for the future.” ― Cindee Snider Re

50. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Khalil Gibran

51. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

52. “Smile even when you’re going through some hard times.” ― Alcurtis Turner

53. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene

54. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.” – Steve Martin

55. “You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.” – Dean Young

56. “Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

57. “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

58. “Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water: they don’t mix.” – Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

59. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. — Walter Elliot, British politician

60. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

61. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

62. “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

63. “Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can’t go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?” – Alex Smith

64. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

65. “Attitude-flexibility is the mentality that helps us to smoothly persevere through turbulent times.”― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

66. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” –John D. Rockefeller

67. “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” ~ Isaac Watts

68. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” –Margaret Fuller

69. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

70. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” Diogenes of Sinope

71. “The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

72. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey

73. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

74. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth, former professional baseball player

75. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer

76. “True heroes are made of hard work and integrity.” — Hope Solo, American former soccer goalkeeper.

77. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

78. “Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place.” — Satya Nadella, Indian-American business executive.

79. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. — Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer

80. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

81. Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased. — Joel Osteen

82. “Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” — Gever Tulley

83. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

84. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. — Tim Notke, basketball coach

85. “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”—Gail Sheehy

86. “She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” — Elizabeth Edwards

87. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

88. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy

89. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln

90. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” –Abraham Lincoln

91. “Difficult times produce strong men and women. Keep on your struggle to achieve your dreams!”― Avijeet Das

92. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” ~ Stephen Covey

93. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

94. “In hard times nothing is visible, life seems to beat you down, with courage hit the problems ball will be in your court.” ― Kishore Bansal

95. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”―Mary Anne Radmach

96. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker

97. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”— Margaret Thatcher

98. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ~ J.K. Rowling

99. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” ~ Alain de Botton

100. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters

101. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

102. “I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” – Paul Simon

103. “Elevate true productivity over the appearance of hard work.” — Scott Belsky, American entrepreneur and author.

104. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

105. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill

106. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

107. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” — Angela Duckworth

108. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” — Carl Bard

109. “After a storm comes a calm.” – Matthew Henry

110. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” — Henry Ford

111. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

112. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

113. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” — Andrew Carnegie

114. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” — Napoleon Hill

115. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” – Abraham Lincoln

116. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

117. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” –Edith Wharton

118. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou

119. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” — Reed Markham

120. “No matter how hard the battle gets, or no matter how many people don’t believe in your dream, never give up!” – Eric Thomas

121. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

122. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

123. “I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, though I was good enough to go through it.” ― Nouman Ali Khan

124. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” –Brian Tracy

125. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

126. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”– Nelson Mandela

127. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A. A. Milne

128. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Ovid

129. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” ~ Bob Riley

130. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell

131. “Difficult times will come.” It’s a fact of life, isn’t it? There are good times and bad times in everybody’s life.”― Raj Kosaraju

132. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller

133. “Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.” – John Hickenlooper

134. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. — Coco Chanel, fashion designer

135. “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.” — Simon Sinek, Author and inspirational speaker.

136. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams

137. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

138. “On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.” — Gregory S. Williams

139. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through — then follow through.” — Edward Rickenbacker

140. “You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.”― Shannon L. Alder

141. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus

142. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” — Henry Kissinger

143. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” — Bob Riley

144. “Grief and resilience live together.” ~ Michelle Obama

145. “The best leaders never stop learning.”

146. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” – Ralph Marston

147. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”~ Jewish Proverb

148. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

149. “Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise.” — Anurag Prakash Ray

150. “Pettiness, spite, and vengeance are emotional reactions considered to be beneath the dignity of a leader.”

151. “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” ~ Demi Lovato

152. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

153. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

154. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates

155. “It’s true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it is also true that no one ever said you had to go through it alone.”― Jellis Vaes

156. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

157. “Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!” – Deborah Day, ‘BE HAPPY NOW!’

158. “Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.”—Robert Schuller

159. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” –John F. Kennedy

160. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” — Ken Blanchard

161. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay

162. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams

163. “What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

164. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” - Tom Peters

165. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

166. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey

167. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.”― Zig Ziglar

168. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis

169. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” ~ Louisa May Alcott

170. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” ~ Bob Marley

171. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

172. “Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” — Joel Osteen

173. “The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” Oprah Winfrey

174. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” —Andrew Carnegie

175. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

176. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell

177. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” –Herbert Swope

178. “Don’t stop breathing just because night has fallen! Don’t stop breathing just because you are sleeping.”― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

179. “I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,

180. “Leadership is an ever-evolving position.” –Mike Krzyzewski

181. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength” – Oprah

182. “Hard times are like thunder. They make a lot of noise but do little harm. Don’t fear hard times.”― Debasish Mridha

183. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

184. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost

185. “Even in hard times there’s a possibility to have fun.” ― Eyden I

186. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

187. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.

188. “I am strong because I’ve been weak. I am fearless because I’ve been afraid.” — Unknown

189. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb

190. The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan

191. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” — Emil Dorian

192. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” — L.M. Montgomery

193. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

194. “Being a self-leader is to serve as chief, captain, president, or CEO of one’s own life” - Drucker

195. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold

196. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

197. “There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

198. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino

199. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

200. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” - Pete Hoekstra

201. “There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

202. “Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren’t there in my tough times.” — S. Sreesanth

203. “The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.” ― Gary Vaynerchuk

204. “In my experience, people who don’t stick around during the hard times weren’t worth having around anyway.” – Kimberly Belle

205. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

206. “Become a happy memory collector. Live fully in the now, appreciating each moment. This is how you capture future memories.” – Karen Salmansohn

207. Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. — Napoleon Hill

208. “There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” —Charles F. Kettering

209. “Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

210. “When you delegate work to a member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.” Steven Sinofsky

211. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” — Bob Marley

212. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” — Ken Blanchard, American author and motivational speaker.

213. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

214. “Do not get discouraged in times of difficulties.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

215. “In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.” — Bill O’Reilly

216. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie

217. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” — Stephen Covey

218. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” —Margaret Thatcher

219. “It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” - Oprah Winfrey

220. “Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.” ~ Napoleon Hill

221. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy

222. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces. — Shane Koyczan

223. “I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.” — Willie Nelson

224. “Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George S. Patton Jr.

225. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”–Abraham Lincoln

226. “Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.” — Dalai Lama

227. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

228. “In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.” — Naveen Tewari

229. “Once you’ve been through tough times, you can only become stronger.” — Alesha Dixon

230. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. —Tony Robbins, American author, and speaker

231. “Fruitful times are waiting those who are patient in the hard times.” — Jonathan H. Wilson

232. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. — Alexander Graham Bell

233. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” –Joel Barker

234. You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley

235. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy

236. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

237. “Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.” – Anton Chekhov

238. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch

239. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” — Seth Godin

240. “I don’t know a startup that hasn’t been through tough times.” – Vinod Khosla

241. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama

242. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. — Leo Buscaglia

243. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

244. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” –Bill Bradley

245. “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent,”

246. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” — Charles F. Kettering, American inventor and engineer.

247. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” — Carlos Ghosn

248. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy

249. “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

250. “In difficult times, it’s so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.” – Alice Barrett

251. “Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.” — Jim Stovall, American writer.

252. If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. — Michelangelo, sculptor and painter

253. “As the worst comes to us when we are unprepared, so shall we Strive when the best in unexpected.” – Goitsemang Mvula

254. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

255. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

256. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” –M.D. Arnold

257. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” –Warren G. Bennis

258. “Don’t cry for a man who’s left you; the next one may fall for your smile.” – Mae West

259. “You’ll never regret what you do in life. You’ll only regret what you don’t do.”— Dr. Wayne Dyer

260. “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

261. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson

262. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Alva Edison

263. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” –John Maxwell

264. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham

265. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Dr. Wayne Dyer

266. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” ~ Chinese Proverb

267. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” ~ Jim Rohn

268. “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” — Sharon Salzberg

269. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” –Peter F. Drucker

270. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father

271. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Nancy D. Solomon

272. “You don’t achieve success, you attract success.” — Farshad Asl, Entrepreneur.

273. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ~ Maya Angelou

274. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Educator and bestselling author.

275. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas Edison, inventor

276. “The highest of distinctions is service to others.” –King George VI

277. “Be strong. You never know who you are inspiring.” – Unknown

278. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu

279. “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy

280. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”—William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

281. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead

282. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt

283. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”– Seneca

284. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, author

285. Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. — Susan L. Taylor, journalist

286. “Be thankful for the bad things in life. They open your eyes to see the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.”

287. “I had a lot of tough times, and I know what it is. We must move forward, working equally and always strong.” — David de Gea

288. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

289. The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress. — Dan Waldschmidt, business strategist

290. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

291. “It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” ~ Bob Richards

292. Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. — Dalai Lama

293. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut

294. “Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Rocky Balboa

295. My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon. — Mizuta Masahide

296. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Harold R. McAlindon

297. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton

298. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” — Sam Rayburn

299. “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” — Madeleine Albright, American politician.

300. “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.” – William J. Brennan, Jr.

301. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino

302. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius

303. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.” –Lyndon B Johnson

304. “I will always find a way and a way will always find me.” – Charles F. Glassman

305. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

306. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” –Warren Bennis

307. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

308. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar

309. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy

310. “By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.”- Albert Bandura

311. “If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.” –Robert F. Mager

312. “A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” – B.F. Skinner

313. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

314. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Tony Robbins

315. “Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.” – Cameron Dokey

316. “Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They’re not arbitrary or random, and they’re definitely not cruel.” ― Liz Curtis Higgs

317. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

318. “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”– Martin Luther King

319. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

320. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

321. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph Kennedy

322. “Just because I’m in the spotlight – I’m actually no better than anyone else. Everyone has hard days and tough times.” – Kyle Carpenter

323. “I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.” –Dwayne Johnson

324. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold Glasow

325. “Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.” – Gabrielle Douglas

326. “I don’t know if I’ve had my share of drama, but I’ve definitely had my share of hard times.” ― Serena Williams

327. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington

328. “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine

329. “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” – Brian Vaczily

330. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn

331. “Be strong, things will get better. It might be stormy now, but rain doesn’t last forever.” – Unknown

332. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” –Peter F. Drucker

333. “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” – Shannon L. Alder

334. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” –Henry Gilmer

335. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” — Max Depree

336. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” — Sylvester Stallone

337. “The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.” –(could not help myself) Lolly Daskal

338. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

339. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy

340. “I’m used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I’m comfortable at all with them.” ― Seth Rogen

341. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy

342. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy

343. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”– Og Mandino

344. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley

345. “If I persist long enough I will win.” – Og Mandino

346. “The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” ~ Anonymous

347. “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ Nelson Mandela

348. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” Mary Tyler Moore

349. “Failing to fail will never give you the real joy and happiness of success” ~ Invajy

350. “Sometimes the tide is with us, and sometimes against. But we keep swimming either way.” – Charlie Munger

351. “Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.” – Chris Burkmenn

352. Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon

353. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

354. “No matter what you’re going through there’s no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.” ― Joyce Meyer

355. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” — Brené Brown, American researcher and storyteller.

356. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” — Chinese Proverb

357. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

358. “Messages are more often “heard” when the communicator is honest, sincere, and succinct. In other words, say what you mean, and mean what you say.”

359. “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.” — Ava DuVernay, American filmmaker.

360. “In the hard times everything will be revealed, stay watching.” – Gun Gun Febrianza

361. “Friends and family matter most during hard times.” ― Liz Miller

362. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” ~ William Ellery Channing

363. “Most people fall upon tough times at some point.” – Esther McVey

364. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” ~ Duke Ellington

365. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”- Duke Ellington

366. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

367. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” – Alain de Botton

368. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty, American author and executive director of MLA.

369. “My barn having burned down. I can now see the moon.” — Mizuta Masahide

370. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung

371. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” - Jack Welch

372. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius

373. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” –Harold Geneen

374. “The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.” – Brian Tracy

375. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. — Steve Jobs, co-Founder of Apple Inc.

376. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

377. “When people talk, listen completely.” –Ernest Hemingway

378. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

379. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. — Robert Collier, author

380. “Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.” — Zig Ziglar

381. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” – Seneca The Younger

382. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”Harold R. McAlindon

383. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

384. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

385. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

386. “Tonight we cry, we despair, and we fear. Tomorrow we get back to work trying to build the world we want.” – Sam Altman

387. “Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.” – Joel Osteen

388. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” –John Buchan

389. “Hard times never last. Let your hope keep you joyful.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

390. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. — Nietzsche, philosopher

391. Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton

392. “The only way round is through.” — Robert Frost, American poet.

393. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” — Max Lucado

394. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney, founder of Walt Disney World

395. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

396. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. — Charles R. Swindoll, author and educator

397. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” — Diogenes of Sinope

398. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.” – Tom Peters

399. “A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissinger

400. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Nelson Mandela

401. “Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” ~ Joel Osteen

402. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, American entrepreneur.

403. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu

404. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” ~ Robert Jordan

405. “Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.” — Kirsten Dunst

406. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” –Seth Godin

407. “The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” — Author Unknown

408. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Chinese Proverb

409. “We’ve gotten through a lot of tough times, and we’re going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.” – Mike Quade

410. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran

411. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

412. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek

413. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” Jim Rohn

414. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

415. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower

416. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”– Kenji Miyazawa

417. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa

418. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” — Michael J. Fox

419. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” — Louisa May Alcott

420. Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

421. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” – Thomas A. Edison

422. “The good life is not built on a foundation of ease…it’s the hard times that give us a rock solid foundation.” – Richie Norton

423. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

424. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

425. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” – Theodore Roosevelt

426. “Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” Brian Tracy

427. “A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” — Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.

428. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” –Carlos Ghosn

429. When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers. — Grizz Chapman

430. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin

431. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” –John Maxwell

432. “Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

433. “Character is simply habit long continued.” - Plato

434. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” ~ Coco Chanel

435. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” — John Buchan

436. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy

437. “One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter

438. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”―Mary Anne Radmacher

439. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” –Leroy Eimes

440. “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney

441. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”– Duke Ellington

442. “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

443. “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden

444. “If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get back up.”- A. Josland

445. “The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, distubances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.” — Margaret Wheatley

446. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller

447. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

448. “Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.” — Anton Chekhov

449. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

450. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” – Muhammad Ali

451. You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training. — Tom Hopkins, sales leader

452. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren G. Bennis

453. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy

454. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” —Arnold H. Glasow

455. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” — Bill Gates

456. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.” — Walter Lippman

457. “Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” –Dave Weinbaum

458. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” - Bruce Lee

459. “The signature of the truly great is not the absence of difficulty but the ability to recover from setbacks.”— Jim Collins

460. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

461. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

462. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

463. “Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves.” — Corrie ten Boom

464. “I’m really out of touch with myself emotionally. I’ve always had a hard time talking about how I feel.” ― Sharon Van Etten

465. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” ~ J.K. Rowling

466. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

467. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient.” — Steve Maraboli

468. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” –Jack Welch

469. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

470. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward

471. Grief and resilience live together. — Michelle Obama

472. “Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” — Mattie Stepanek, American poet.

473. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

474. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.”- Mary Anne Radmacher

475. “Once I’ve learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.” ― Skylar Grey

476. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”―H.G. Wells

477. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford

478. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader

479. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner

480. “On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.” ~ Gregory S. Williams

481. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy

482. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ― Epicurus, Greek philosopher

483. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.” – Bill Parcells

484. “Small minds can’t comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated and misunderstood. Stay strong.” – Unknown

485. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King Jr.

486. “There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”

487. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” - Kenneth H. Blanchard

488. “You are not allowed to let the sadness ruin you.” – Karen Salmansohn

489. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” - Steve Jobs

490. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein

491. “When you face any difficulty, do not panic but pray.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

492. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

493. “Perseverance is the key to success. Never give up and keep making efforts. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” ~ Invajy

494. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

495. “It’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.” – Sara Evans

496. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Harold R. McAlindon

497. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’

498. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman

499. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” – Epictetus

500. “Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbins

501. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”—Joseph Kennedy

502. “Doug Conant is remarkable—and so is this work.“

503. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” — Sir Winston Churchill

504. “In my experience, people who don’t stick around during the hard times weren’t worth having around anyway.”― Kimberly Belle

505. “I believe most people in their life will fall upon tough times at some point.” — Esther McVey

506. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” –Lao Tzu

507. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” — Drew Barrymore

508. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell

509. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” –Ken Blanchard

510. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” ~ Christopher Reeve

511. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller

512. “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong… I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

513. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

514. “Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

515. “Accept hardship as a necessary discipline.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

516. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

517. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear that you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

518. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” — Christopher Reeve

519. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton

520. “Don’t bemoan your fate. Everybody’s not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody’s going to go through tough times.”- Chuck Knox

521. “You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” – Robin Williams

522. “A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” – Henry Kissinger

523. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

524. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” John C. Maxwell

525. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

526. “There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.” – Laure Manaudou

527. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

528. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton

529. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou

530. “You start with a darkness to move through

531. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” Tom Peters

532. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

533. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

534. “Energy and persistence conquers all things.” — Benjamin Franklin

535. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

536. “If you are being positive and strong in difficult times half of your problems will be solved automatically.” – Anurag Prakash

537. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy

538. “Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.” ~ Corrie ten Boom

539. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch

540. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

541. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” — Corrie ten Boom

542. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.— Stephen King, author

543. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca

544. “People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.” – Joel Osteen

545. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford

546. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller

547. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon

548. “Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.” ― Zig Ziglar

549. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. — Sam Ewing, author

550. “An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.” – Mae West

551. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs

552. “Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” – Unknown

553. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand

554. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”– Robert Schuller

555. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” — Randy Pausch

556. “Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.” ― Aimee Mullins

557. “Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

558. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader

559. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc

560. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

561. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward

562. “The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley

563. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

564. “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” — Demi Lovato

565. If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.~ Corrie ten Boom

566. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” — Aristotle

567. “When life changes itself to harder. Change yourself to stronger.” –

568. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

569. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon

570. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey

571. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” –John Zenger

572. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” - George Patton

573. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein

574. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

575. “In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you’ll survive.” ― Whoopi Goldberg

576. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader

577. “Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!”– Yvonne Pierre

578. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Khalil Gibran

579. “The last of human freedoms – the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances. – Viktor Frankl

580. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'" — Mary Anne Radmacher

581. “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” — Jaeda Dewalt

582. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” - Peter F. Drucker

583. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.”– Napoleon Hill

584. “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.” ~ William Hazlitt

585. “Every generation has their challenge.” – Jon Stewart

586. “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Thing big goals and win big success.” —David Joseph Schwartz

587. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” — Mark Twain

588. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” — Publilius Syrus

589. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

590. “You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.” – Roz Inga

591. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” –Steve Jobs

592. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” — J.K. Rowling

593. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

594. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

595. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein

596. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy

597. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

598. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.”—Unknown

599. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” ~ Emil Dorian

600. “Our love is so big. It has room for everybody.” — Cari Tuna, President of the Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures.

601. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

602. “By the darkness, stars are revealed.” — Evette Carter

603. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” –Seneca

604. “There were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times.” – Steve Jobs

605. “Hard times can mean no friends, no job, no hope.” — Andrew Matthews

606. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey

607. “Hard times are coming to your town / So stay alert, don’t let them get you down.” — Joseph Simmons

608. “One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” ― Albert Schweitzer

609. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen

610. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Chuck Swindoll

611. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, American political figure and former First Lady.

612. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” — Seneca

613. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”- Edith Wharton

614. “It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.” ― Karen Marie Moning

615. “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” ~ Jaeda Dewalt

616. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Costaneda

617. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” — Napoléon Bonaparte

618. “Even in the tough times, He’s still a good God.” – Victoria Osteen

619. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”– Confucius

620. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. — George Bernard Shaw, playwright

621. “You cannot beat hard time, but hard times bears fools and scatters their destiny.” — Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka

622. “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” – Paulo Coelho

623. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy

624. “If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.” ― Robert Breault

625. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela

626. Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team. — Emily Chang

627. “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” — Ted Sundquist, American football player.

628. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou

629. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

630. “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” — Nelson Mandela

631. “You manage things; you lead people.” — Grace Murray Hopper

632. “Failures are foundation stones of the Success Forts” ~ Invajy

633. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey

634. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

635. “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” — Woodrow Wilson

636. “I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.” ― Tuba marryam

637. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” –Stephen Covey

638. “When people talk, listen completely.” — Ernest Hemingway

639. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” — Alain de Botton

640. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

641. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

642. “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.”—William J. Brennan

643. “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.” — William J. Brennan, Jr., Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

644. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” – Coco Chanel

645. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

646. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” — Brian Tracy

647. “All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet.”― Marjory Sheba

648. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Barbara De Angelis

649. “Never give in. Never, never, never.” — Winston Churchill

650. “Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.” – Tim Fargo

651. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis

652. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

653. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold Glasow

654. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

655. “To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.”

656. “In tough times, that’s when you see true colors and personality.” — Didier Deschamps

657. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” –Donald McGannon

658. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon, hairdressing business tycoon

659. “Hard times sustain and strengthen others, inspiring them to strive toward personal growth.” – Senora Roy

660. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”—Confucius

661. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou

662. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” –James Humes

663. “If you're going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

664. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”– Albert Einstein

665. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

666. “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” — Roger Crawford

667. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. — Dale Carnegie, author and lecturer

668. “Ain’t a hard time been invented that I cannot handle.” — Michael Mann

669. “The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” ― Epictetus

670. Without labor, nothing prospers. — Sophocles

671. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ― Michael Jordan

672. “When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things – the birds, trees, flowers.” ~ Grizz Chapman

673. “In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.” – Theresa May

674. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

675. Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid

676. “One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys.” – Dr. Al Lorin

677. “I’m in a glass case of emotion.” – Anchorman

678. If your teacher, coach, or mentor believes you can do something, you’re more likely to do it. — Gwen Moran, FastCompany

679. You’ve got to Stay Strong to be strong in tough times. – Tilman J. Fertitta

680. “He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.” – Colin Clark, ‘My Week with Marilyn’

681. “We’re going to have tough times. We’re going to have five-game losing streaks. Everybody goes through it.” – Masai Ujiri

682. “No one is going to make you a leader. Take the reins, create your own opportunity, and build the career that you deserve.” Devin Bramhall

683. “Hard times have made me see / That the hard times ain’t where I wanna be.” — Christopher Bridges

684. “There are no office hours for leaders.” –Cardinal J. Gibbons

685. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” - Margaret Wheatley

686. “There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles.” ― Louis L’Amour

687. “The hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself.” – Bill George

688. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

689. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” —Sam Rayburn

690. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein

691. “To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.”– Barbara DeAngelis

692. “You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice.” — Seth Godin, American author and business executive.

693. “You always feel for your fellow players when they are going through tough times, losing and things like that.” — Sonny Bill Williams

694. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”

695. I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. — Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the U.S.

696. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” — Arnold Glasow

697. “The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.” –DeSeaux

698. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”—Thomas Edison

699. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett

700. “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” — Jessica Savitch, American television news presenter.

701. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

702. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ~ Ovid

703. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark

704. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

705. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.” — Greg Kincaid

706. “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” — Wes Fessler

707. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

708. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates

709. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

710. “Taking care of yourself makes you stronger for everyone in your life… including you.” – Kelly Rudolph

711. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen

712. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar, author, and motivational speaker

713. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.” Brian Tracy

714. “You need resilience not just for the hard times. You need resilience if you’re going to be happy.” — Eric Greitens

715. “I could endure hard times thanks to my fans that stood by me. I decided that I wouldn’t disappoint them.” ― Jay Park

716. “She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” ~ Elizabeth Edwards

717. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” –Rosalynn Carter

718. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell

719. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”—Carl Bard

720. “I’m not prepared to give up just yet.”

721. “Through hard times. It puts your life into perspective. It will get you back on track.” — Andrew Matthews

722. All are architects of fate - Henry W. Longfellow

723. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

724. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” — Pete Hoekstra

725. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” —Henry Ford

726. “The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.” – Charles M Schwab

727. When you do more than you’ paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do. — Zig Ziglar, author and motivational speaker

728. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” –Publilius Syrus

729. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” ~ Chuck Swindoll

730. Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare. — Angela Duckworth

731. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey

732. “See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.”― Ogwo David Emenike

733. “Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” — George S. Patton Jr.

734. “If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” ~ Shane Koyczan

735. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston S. Churchill, former Prime Minister

736. “Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.” — Phil Jackson, American former professional basketball player and coach.

737. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen

738. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” –Jeanette Rankin

739. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi

740. Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. - Peter F. Drucker

741. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

742. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell, first Black Secretary of State

743. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn

744. “There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” ― Frank Herbert

745. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ~ Og Mandino

746. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

747. “Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” – Kevin Kruse

748. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra

749. “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” ~ Paulo Coelho

750. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” ~ Angela Duckworth

751. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” James Freeman Clark

752. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

753. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand

754. “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” ~ Sharon Salzberg

755. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

756. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” - Seth Godin

757. “You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”— Larry Page, American computer scientist.

758. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”- John Lennon

759. Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda

760. Impossible is just an opinion. — Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist, and novelist

761. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.” – Sun Tzu

762. “Hard times always lead to something great.” – Betsey Johnson

763. “Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know.” – Amy Poehler

764. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy

765. “It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.” — Dalai Lama

766. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker

767. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” –Arnold Glasow

768. “He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” – Lao Tzu

769. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

770. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell

771. “But I’ve bought a big bat.

772. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” – Emma Donoghue

773. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” –David Star Jordan

774. “Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.” ― Kirsten Dunst

775. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

776. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

777. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” — John C. Maxwell

778. “Earn your leadership every day.” –Michael Jordan

779. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” –Ray Kroc

780. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” –Max Depree

781. “His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.” ― Laura Hillenbrand

782. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” –Pete Hoekstra

783. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.”—Unknown

784. “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

785. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”—Bernice Johnson Reagon

786. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

787. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” – Wayne Dyer

788. On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire. — Larry D. Turner

789. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” Lao Tzu

790. “Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.” – Mike Tyson

791. “In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous – but take it away, and all you’re left with is hard times.” ― Paul Madonna

792. “will pay attention to the role of stories [and] myths . . . .”

793. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. — Muhammad Ali, Black professional boxer and activist

794. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” — Joel Barker

795. “Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren’t so challenging.” ~ Carrie Fisher

796. “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” — Emiliano Zapata

797. “Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.” – Virginia Euwer Wolff

798. “Nobody can make you to feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

799. “It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.”― Saim .A. Cheeda

800. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” — Jack Welch

801. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou, American poet, and civil rights activist

802. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” — James Allen

803. “The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown

804. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison

805. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” —Bob Dylan

806. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” – Walt Disney

807. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

808. “The first step is you have to say that you can.” – Will Smith

809. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

810. “Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.” — Jewel

811. “All warriors of a free life share a hardcore mantel that brindles them through troubled times.”― Kilroy J. Oldster

812. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” – Joel Osteen

813. “With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything.” — Tahir Shah, British author, journalist, and documentary maker.

814. “Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.” – Crystal Woodman Miller

815. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston S. Churchill

816. “It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.” – Henry Ward Beecher

817. “Without hope, how can we survive hard times?” – Lailah Gifty Akita

818. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

819. “You walk around with a negative attitude and you’re just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.” — Charles de Lint

820. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

821. “You manage things; you lead people.” –Grace Murray Hopper

822. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” — Nelson Mandela

823. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

824. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” – Swami Vivekananda

825. “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

826. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

827. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”— John R. Wooden

828. “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”—Unknown

829. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward

830. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George

831. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” –Ralph Nader

832. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami

833. “All human beings are self-leaders; however, not all self-leaders are effective at self-leading” - Manz

834. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” — Margaret Thatcher

835. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.” –Edward Rickenbacker

836. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”—Eleanor Roosevelt

837. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa

838. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” –Mahatma Gandhi

839. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

840. “I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football.” — Jen Welter, American football coach.

841. “An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.” — Reid Hoffman, American Internet entrepreneur.

842. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

843. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

844. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” — Latin Proverb

845. “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” ~ Mizuta Masahide

846. “Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All is does it steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.” – Lionel Willard

847. “Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.”

848. “We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves.” — Terry Orlick, Canadian professor.

849. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden

850. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon

851. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” –Henry Kissinger

852. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” Rosalynn Carter

853. Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. — Bob Riley

854. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson

855. “Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds…”― Ana Claudia Antunes

856. “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” — Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician.

857. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” — David Star Jordan

858. “It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” — Bob Richards

859. “The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, distubances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.” —Margaret Wheatley

860. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about others. - Jack Welch

861. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ~ Michael J. Fox

862. “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”– John Wooden

863. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

864. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein

865. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford

866. “When hardships keep coming back, do not take it personal. It’s just life.”― Naide P Obiang

867. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ~ Steve Maraboli

868. “Life will throw obstacles at you to make sure you truly want it.” – Maxime Lagacé

869. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” — Ray Kroc

870. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.” — Unknown

871. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

872. “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.”—William J. Brennan, Jr., Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

873. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” — Warren Bennis

874. “I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.” – Kelly Osbourne

875. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H Schuller

876. “At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.” – Scott Hahn, ‘Hope for Hard Times’

877. If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. — Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX

878. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott

879. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” –

880. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

881. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary

882. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” ~ Corrie ten Boom

883. “Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” ~ Gever Tulley

884. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz

885. “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” – Stephanie Lahart

886. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

887. “As a leader, you should always start with where people are before you try to take them where you want them to go.” Jim Rohn

888. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”– William Samuel Johnson

889. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb

890. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

891. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

892. “It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.” — David Lynch, co-creater of Twin Peaks

893. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese author.

894. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” –Tony Blair

895. “Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference.” - Mark Sanborn

896. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” –Dianne Feinstein

897. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.” – Julian Edelman

898. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter

899. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden

900. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas Edison

901. “It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way.”― Robert Tew

902. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”—Joshua J. Marine

903. “Believe in yourself and you can be anything.” -Katy Perry

904. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Sylvester Stallone

905. “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.”—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

906. “In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.” ― Knute Nelson

907. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley

908. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” — Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

909. “As president, Lincoln was an intelligent communicator. He was careful about what he said, and he thought before he spoke.”

910. “It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” — Shonda Rhimes, American television producer.

911. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” —Steve Jobs

912. “They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know that we were seeds.” – Mexican Proverb

913. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~ Helen Keller

914. “Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. – Unknown ”

915. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.” – Frida Kahlo

916. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

917. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

918. “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”—Gail Sheehy, Author

919. “It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.” — Garrett Camp, Canadian entrepreneur.

920. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

921. “Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.” — Corrie ten Boom

922. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr

923. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” — Paulo Coelho

924. “How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.” – Confucius, ‘The Analects’

925. Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. — Dr. Mae Jemison, first Black female astronaut

926. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau

927. “Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.” – Abdul Kalam

928. “Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

929. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” — Greg Kincaid

930. “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” ~ Wes Fessler

931. “One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.” – Roy T. Bennett

932. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” — William Ellery Channing

933. “Life will always be hard on you, but it doesn’t mean you should give up.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

934. “Faith is why I’m here today and faith is why I made it through.’ – Jonathan Anthony Burkett

935. “Don’t miss the blessing disguised as shit.”― Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

936. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford

937. Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging. — Carrie Fisher

938. “By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.” – Albert Bandura

939. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” ~ Emily Dickinson

940. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”– Albert Einstein

941. “The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it’s going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.”- Greg Egan

942. “Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I’ve had my tough times.” – David Ortiz

943. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel

944. “You don't need a title to be a leader.” - Mark Sanborn

945. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” Ross Perot

946. “I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.” – Dwayne Johnson

947. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

948. “If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.” - Jack Weatherford

949. “When someone is going through a storm…your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words.” – Thelma Davis

950. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison