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637 Inspirational Life Is Hard Quotes For Tough Times

1. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. ” – Pat Summitt


2. “A pious woman’s neighbor, a philanthropist’s child, a liberal’s servant–these three have a hard life.” ~ Franz Grillparzer


3. “Tough times never last, but tough people do. ” –Robert H. Schuller4. “If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis


5. “I swing hard all the time. That’s what I’ve done my whole life-hit.” ~ David Ortiz


6. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you. ” –Maxwell Maltz


7. “When you’re watching your baby son die, or your child fight to live and learn to walk again or watch your wife lose her memory or or or ... when you KNOW what matters in life ... the little battles we naturally experience over ego seem to disappear because they are overshadowed by gratitude. ⁣”


8. “Man needs obstacles to get matured!” – Mehmet Murat ildan


9. “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


10. “Nothing good comes cheaply so we shouldn’t be surprised when we meet the hard while going for the best. Hard times are not quit times. ” – Terry Mark11. “Have you ever been too old, too young, too big, too small, too smart, too dumb?12. “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. ”—Gail Sheehy


13. Elie Weisel Says to Lean On Hopeful People


14. “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”


15. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”16. “Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb. ” ― Chinonye J. Chidolue17. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. ” – Martin Luther King, Jr


18. Making money is hard. Keeping money is hard. Choose your hard.19. Sara Evans Wants You to Look For the Colors20. “Why bother trying when I’ll just mess up again?”


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


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


23. “At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”


24. Marriage is hard. Divorce is hard. Managing a relationship for a lifetime requires a lifetime of work. If you’re willing to continue doing the hard work up front that a marriage requires, then enjoying the “fruits” of that relationship—and all that is intertwined within it—will be the greater future result. If you’re not willing to do the hard work up front and you choose to, instead, do what’s easy (take the person for granted; get distracted from responsibilities; not communicate; make no effort to nurture love. , then the hard consequence of divorce—and all of the messy, complex, expensive situations that are intertwined within it—will be the harder future result.25. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”26. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. — Malcolm S. Forbes27. “A good half of the art of living is resilience. ” — Alain de Botton28. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark. ” – Charles Spurgeon


29. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions. ” –Steve Case


30. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb31. “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. ” – Leroy Satchel Paige


32. Napoleon Hill Sees The Lessons in Everything


33. “Things aren’t always easy, but you just have to keep going and don’t let the small stuff bog you down. ” – Stella Maeve


34. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”


35. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb


36. “Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win. ” - Unknown


37. “Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure. ” - Napoleon Hill38. Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid


39. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. - Albert Schweitzer


40. “When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them, and you will see them dissolving in front of your eyes. ”


41. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa42. “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears. ” — Demi Lovato


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


44. “I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times. ” – Kelly Osbourne


45. “The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.” – Orrin Woodward


46. “keep smiling”47. “The fact is, life rains on you. How sad you haven’t learned to dance in the downpour.”


48. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ” – Joseph Kennedy49. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller


50. “Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. ” –Samuel Johnson


51. “The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


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


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


54. “Being happy doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It just means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – K. B. Indiana


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


56. Facing your flaws is hard. Hiding them is hard. Choose your hard.57. Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, everything will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.


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


59. Sometimes life is hard, but you gotta be strong and keep moving on. Don’t let anything hold you back from what you want


60. Admitting you need help is hard. Trying to do it all alone is hard. Choose your hard.


61. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson62. “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


63. “In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. ” – Albert Einstein64. Being fit is hard,Being unfit is hard,Choose your hard65. Life is hard sometimes, but there is always a reason for why it is66. Duke Ellington Wants to Know if You’ll Pass the Test?


67. Tough times never last, but tough people do!


68. “Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves. ” — Corrie ten Boom69. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”


70. “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 Vaes71. “Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. ” – Conor McGregor


72. Letting someone in is hard. Shutting everyone out is hard. Choose your hard.73. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”


74. “We generate fears when we sit. We overcome them when we take action. ” ― DR. HENRY LINK


75. “Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is. ” – Lisa


76. “In order to defeat our challengers and rise above every obstacle, we must be able to persevere.” – Ellen J. Barrier


77. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.”—Unknown78. Life is hard, but we make it much harder. - Ryan Holiday


79. “A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint.” – Sarah Price


80. It probably goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway


81. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better


82. Sometimes life can seem hard, but it’s not necessarily because you’re doing something wrong, it may be because you are doing something right. – Steven Aichison


83. Albert Schweitzer Knows Others Can Help You


84. No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder


85. “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.” ~ Dale Carnegie


86. “I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. ” — Rosie Perez


87. “Never give up on what you really want to do. ” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr88. Admitting you're wrong is hard. Pretending you're right is hard. Choose your hard.


89. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard


90. And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance. — Gabrielle Williams


91. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” ~ Thomas A. Edison92. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ” – Bill Bradley93. “People living deeply have no fear of death.”


94. Facing your demons is hard. Running from them is hard. Choose your hard.


95. Saying 'I'm sorry' is hard. Not saying 'I'm sorry' is hard. Choose your hard.


96. Giving up is easy. Staying the course is hard. Choose your hard.


97. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. ” – Lao Tzu98. “Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. ”― Brandi L. Bates


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


100. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ” Are you ready to push through?” – Julie Andrews


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


102. “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”


103. “seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll” – Chris Bradford, ‘Young Samurai: The Way Of The Warrior,’ 2008104. “A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. ”–Sarah Price


105. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ”–Walt Disney


106. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. ” ― J. K. Rowling


107. “When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a million reasons to smile and laugh. Stay strong. ”108. Communication is hard,Not communicating is hard,Choose your hard


109. Allowing yourself to feel is hard. Numbing yourself to everything is hard. Choose your hard.110. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. ” – Frank A. Clark111. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche112. You can unsubscribe anytime


113. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin.


114. “Every single day is a good day no matter how bright or dark it is, because it always brings an opportunity to start a positive beginning in your life. ” –Edmond Mbiaka


115. “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ” – Martha Graham


116. Robert H. Schuller Knows You’re Tough


117. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. ” – Pele118. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else. ” –Unknown


119. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”


120. “The biggest weapon of billions of people against the difficulties of life is ‘the desperation solutions’ that sadden humanity instead of ‘real solutions’ that suit human dignity.” – Mehmet Murat ildan121. “Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.” – Barack Obama122. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay


123. “Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts. ” –Mike Ditka


124. Dale Carnegie is Keepin’ On Keepin’ On


125. “Any man can win when things go his way, it’s the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion. ” – Jock Ewing


126. “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”127. Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes


128. “We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them. The sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened,’ the sooner you can get on with your own life.” – Annie Proulx


129. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert Kennedy130. “Make sure you are responding to the present moment and not reacting to something from your past that the current situation reminds you of.” – Maryam Hasnaa


131. “Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal. ” — Nathan Chen132. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford133. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”


134. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”—Maya Angelou


135. For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness


136. Les Brown on Taking Responsibility137. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. ” - Confucius138. “You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.” - Dean Young


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


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


141. “Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. ” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe142. “Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don’t choose whether or not you’ll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.” – Brianna Weist143. Jonathan Anthony Burkett on Faith144. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso


145. Shaun Hick Knows the Value of Being in Shadow


146. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” ~ Sydney J. Harris


147. “After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. ” – William R. Alger148. “Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit. ” – Napoleon Hill


149. Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. - Terri Guillemets


150. When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better. There are good times coming.151. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. ” - Mario Fernandez


152. Marriage is hard. Divorce is hard. Choose your hard.


153. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ” – John Wooden


154. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”155. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ” – Bernice Johnson Reagon156. “Life gets tough from time to time. But I’ll still love you, no matter what. ”157. “Anybody who’s ever gone through a hard time – any outsider’s perception, no matter how much information they’re given, they have no idea what the person’s life is like.” ~ Amy Grant , Through hard life quotes158. “When life knocks you down…calmly get back up, smile, and very politely say, “You hit like a bitch. ”


159. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. ” - Dan Millman160. “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


161. Kenji Miyazawa Says Pain is Useful162. “It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or give in. Always choose the former. ” ― Lailah Gifty Akita


163. “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ~ J. K. Rowling


164. “Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself.” – Thomas D. Willhite


165. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ” - Michael Jordan


166. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller167. “I get it now; I didn’t get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible… and enjoying everything in between. ” — Mia Farrow168. “The ultimate measure of a man is where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


169. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.


170. Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.


171. “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


172. “When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them, and you will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.” – Dr. Roopleen


173. “Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right” – Thisuri Wanniarachchi


174. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. ” –Stephen Richards


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


176. “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. ” — Michael Jordan


177. “Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.” ~ Aidan Quinn


178. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. ” —George Whitefield179. If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.


180. “The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki


181. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.


182. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”


183. “Have I ever seen a star breaking from the sky? Or is it you falling from eye?”


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


185. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. ” – Mario Fernandez186. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”187. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein


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


189. “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”


190. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” – Shaun Hick


191. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ” – T. S. Eliot


192. Asking for what you need is hard. Going without is hard. Choose your hard.


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


194. “So don't let nobody tell you any different about the old days. Life is hard now, nothing but suffering, but some kinds of suffering is easier to bear than others.”


195. Being in debt is hard,Being financially disciplined is hard,Choose your hard


196. “It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. ” – Dalai Lama197. H. G. Wells Tells You to Get Back Up


198. “Life has a cruel way of reminding one and all it stops for no one and simply marches on, dragging everyone with it.”


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


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


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


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


203. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”


204. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”—Robert H. Schuller205. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke


206. And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.


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


208. “Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”


209. “No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience. — Eric Greitens


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


211. You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.


212. “Success is what comes after you stop making excuses. ” – Luis Galarza


213. Doing the right thing is hard. Doing the wrong thing is hard. Choose your hard.


214. “Stay strong. Make them wonder how you’re still smiling. ”215. “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. ” – Dale Carnegie216. “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


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


218. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ” - Jacques Prevert219. “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive. ” – Frida Kahlo220. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus


221. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong. ” - Sarah Dessen


222. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.”


223. Taking care of yourself is hard. Neglecting yourself is hard. Choose your hard.


224. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”


225. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”


226. “Food, like your money, should be working for you.” – Rita Deattrea Beckford


227. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”―H.G. Wells228. “People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life – to learn something is a joy to me.” ~ August Strindberg


229. “Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, everything will get better and the sun will shine brighter than ever. ” – Ernest Hemingway


230. If you’ve been paying attention, you might’ve noticed I’m really big on this concept of ‘Choose Your Hard’ right now231. “All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet. ”― Marjory Sheba232. “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. ” — Robert F. Kennedy


233. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill


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


235. Taking the first step is hard. Not taking any steps is hard. Choose your hard.236. If you want to do something that requires willpower—like going for a run after work—you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day,237. William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Says Challenges Make Us Great238. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. ” – Vince Lombardi


239. “It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them. ” – Katherine Reutter


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


241. “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


242. “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 Ray243. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”244. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”


245. Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times. — Lailah Gifty Akita246. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve247. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. ” – E. B. White


248. “My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again. ” – Richard Branson249. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”250. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ” — Marcus Aurelius


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


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


253. “Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ” ― Mason Cooley


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


255. “And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well.” - Gabrielle Williams


256. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. - David Russell257. And once you realize this, it has no power over you. ” - Chuck Palahniuk258. “Fall seven times, stand up eight. ” — Japanese Proverb


259. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”- Albert Einstein.


260. Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day


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


262. “Achieving success is a challenge, but so is struggling, so you may as well choose success.” – Rob Liano


263. “When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe


264. “There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”


265. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.


266. Trying again is hard. Giving up is hard. Choose your hard.


267. “It’s so hard to keep everything balanced in life.” ~ Rosanna Arquette268. In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.


269. Christopher Reeve Has Hope At His Side


270. “Focus and simplicity…once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs271. I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world


272. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”


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


274. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. ” - Thomas Edison275. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ” – Walter Elliot


276. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time277. “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ” – Joseph Campbell


278. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt279. “I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don’t work at all for a couple of months.” ~ Gregory Hines


280. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi Jr.


281. “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.” ~ Ronald Reagan


282. 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


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


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


285. Mary Anne Radmacher Says Courage is Quiet286. “Concentration is the secret of strength.”287. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy


288. “Tough times never last, but tough people do! – Robert H. Schuller, ‘Tough times never last, but tough people do!’, 1993


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


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


291. When you encounter obstacles, don't turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and you will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.


292. Making an effort is hard. Doing nothing is hard. Choose your hard.


293. “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 Iacocca294. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ” – Abraham Lincoln295. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill


296. “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


297. “Choose to focus on one task and that task only. Then do the next thing. ”298. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ” –Epicurus


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


300. “Don’t resist the growing pains, push through them. ” ― Germany Kent


301. “A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey


302. “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


303. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”304. “We face up to awful things because we can't go around them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened,’ the sooner you can get on with your own life.” - Annie Proulx


305. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt


306. “I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realized that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times. ” — Sonali Bendre


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


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


309. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. ” – C. S. Lewis


310. You just can't beat the person who won't give up.311. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.


312. When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and you will see them dissolving in front of your eyes313. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.


314. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan


315. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”316. “Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?” – Israelmore Ayivor


317. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun. ” – Shaun Hick


318. “One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge. ” – Roy T. Bennett


319. Nothing good comes cheaply so we shouldn't be surprised when we meet the hard while going for the best. Hard times are not quit times. - Terry Mark


320. “A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times” - Steve Goodier321. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ”— Margaret Thatcher


322. “Faith is why I’m here today and faith is why I made it through.’ – Jonathan Anthony Burkett323. “For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. ” – Guillermo del Toro


324. “Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli


325. “When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. ” — Lindsey Vonn326. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. - Jewish Proverb327. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt328. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.


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


330. Sometimes life is filled with things outside your control331. “Life is difficult. For some people, excessively so.”


332. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. ” - Lou Holtz


333. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ” - John Wooden334. “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”335. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.


336. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ” — Tony Robbins


337. “With confidence, you have won before you have started. ” – Marcus Garvey338. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. ” — Jodi Picoult339. “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ”– Martin Luther King340. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” - Kenji Miyazawa341. Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth342. “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


343. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. ” - Marjorie Pay Hinckley


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


345. “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ” - Bono


346. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient. ” — Steve Maraboli347. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth


348. 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


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


350. “On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin. ” — Gregory S. Williams351. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. - Terri Guillemets


352. “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”353. Moving on is hard. Staying stuck is hard. Choose your hard.


354. It’s a hard life if you don’t weaken


355. “Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” – Barbara De Angelis


356. “Everything ends. You just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line. ” ― Jesse Itzler


357. “We all have battles to fight. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. ” — Eric Greitens


358. “I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. ” – Aaliyah


359. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford


360. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun. ” - Shaun Hick


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


362. “The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best out of everything that comes their way. ” –Unknown


363. You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.


364. “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”


365. “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ” – Conrad Hilton


366. “There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler. ” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer367. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”


368. “As the worst comes to us when we are unprepared, so shall we Strive when the best in unexpected. ” – Goitsemang Mvula369. “I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. ” – Mike Ditka


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


371. “If you are feeling low or trampled, unappreciated or forgotten and you are reading this, realize it is an illusion. The hope is real, you are valued, and what lies ahead is brilliance. ” –Tom Althouse


372. Thomas Edison Says You’re So Close!


373. “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


374. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ”– Albert Einstein


375. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”—Earl Nightingale


376. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ” – Confucius377. “The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. ” – Napoleon Hill, ‘Napoleon Hill’s How to Think and Grow Rich,’ 2013


378. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. - Iain Duncan Smith


379. William J. Brennan, Jr. Encourages You to Rise Up


380. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ” – Christopher Reeve


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


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


383. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. ” – Mary Lou Retton


384. “I don’t want to be here anymore.”


385. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”


386. “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow'” – Mary Anne Radmacher


387. “Hard times may have put you down sometimes but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be wise and strong. ” – Anurag Prakash Ray


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


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


390. “You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong. ” — Margaret George


391. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces. — Shane Koyczan392. “If things don’t work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!” — Sarah Dessen


393. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. ” - Og Mandino394. “I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. ” — Willie Nelson


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


396. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ” - William James


397. “Also, stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it. ” – Mark Ruffalo


398. The world won’t show you mercy when you need it most


399. “When life is tough, remember you’re tougher. ”


400. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Facing Challenges


401. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. ” — Eloise Ristad


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


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


404. “Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. ” –Unknown405. 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


406. Asking for help is hard. Going it alone is hard. Choose your hard.


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


408. “Maybe the Nazis told the truth about us. Maybe the Nazis were the truth. We shouldn't forget the truth. The rest, just beautiful tiful lies about ourselves. Perhaps do — to sing another beautiful lie.”


409. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ” —Sam Levenson


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


411. “You’ll never regret what you do in life. You’ll only regret what you don’t do. ”— Dr. Wayne Dyer412. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ” – Michael Jordan


413. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”


414. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”


415. Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. - Bruce Lee


416. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. ” — Martin Luther King Jr


417. “Just because you are not getting it today doesn’t mean you will never achieve it. ”


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


419. Geraldine Solon Says Chocolate is Cathartic420. “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ” – Arthur Golden


421. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” - Christopher Reeve


422. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt


423. “I’ll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you’ll find your way through. ”― Joan Bauer


424. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ” –Lance Armstrong425. “It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure. ”― Saim. A. Cheeda


426. “Man is dust.


427. “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. ” – Michelle Obama


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


429. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. 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


430. ”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”


431. “Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want. ” – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008


432. Making a change is hard. Remaining the same is hard. Choose your hard.


433. Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far434. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama


435. Thisuri Wanniarachchi Wants You to Fight


436. “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain.” – Deepak Chopra


437. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.


438. “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ” – William Arthur Ward


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


440. “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”


441. “If I persist long enough I will win.” – Og Mandino442. “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain.” - Deepak Chopra


443. “The strength of your obstacle determines the weight of your potential. The greater your potential, the heavier your dunamis power must be.” – Israelmore Ayivor


444. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” ~ Steve Jobs


445. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”


446. Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging. — Carrie Fisher447. Being broke is hard,Becoming rich is hard, choose your hard


448. “Life throws challenges, and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.” – Amit Ray


449. “If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result.” – Idowu Koyenikan


450. Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don’t choose whether or not you’ll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for


451. “Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you. ” - Chuck Palahniuk


452. “Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can’t put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones. ” –H. Jackson Brown Jr


453. “You can’t stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot. ” – Anita Dobson


454. “It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by a bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot. ” –Steven Pressfield


455. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up. ” – Chuck Yeager


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


457. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ” – Lao Tzu


458. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak


459. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ” – John Quincy Adams


460. Just because something is hard, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it


461. “No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder. ”–Elon Musk


462. “The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring. ” –Louis L’Amour


463. “Talent means nothing. 50% of my success comes from luck. 50% comes from never giving up. ”–Maxime Lagace


464. “At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.” ~ Howard Thurman


465. “Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever. ”466. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” —Randy Pausch


467. “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. ” – Helen Keller


468. “No matter how many mistakes you’ve made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory. ” ― Joel Osteen


469. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”


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


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


472. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”


473. If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.


474. Being yourself is hard. Fitting in is hard. Choose your hard.


475. 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.476. “Remind yourself every second; what is your purpose?”


477. “A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times” – Steve Goodier


478. “Marriage stands the test of time when both you and your spouse work towards making things better. And we are tested the most when we face adversities. If you can sail through the adversities as one, as a team, then you have won half the battle.” – Unknown


479. “Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less. ” – Steve Goodier


480. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.


481. “Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it’s not so easy when it’s not calm water. You can’t just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times. ” — Sean Dyche


482. Bernice Johnson Reagon Encourages You to Discover


483. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. ” – Norman Vincent Peale


484. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee


485. “When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: There will be ground to stand. Or you will grow wings to fly. ” –O. R. Melling


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


487. “Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne


488. Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. — Steve Maraboli


489. The more experiments you make, the better. ” - Ralph Waldo Emerson490. “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.” – William Hazlitt


491. “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ” – Bono


492. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through. - Joan Bauer


493. “Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.”


494. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. ” –Babe Ruth495. “Don’t cry for a man who’s left you; the next one may fall for your smile. ” - Mae West


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


497. “What’s important isn’t whether or not I win but rather my own personal growth as an athlete and person because of running this race for myself” -Colin Kaepernick.


498. “Tough times call for tougher decisions. ” — Prabhas


499. “Gorgeous avenues gets lined up for you in the unseen when you keep pushing relentlessly through the pain, discomfort and challenges. ” ― Hiral Nagda


500. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”


501. “A goal without a plan is just a wish!”- Antoine de Saint-Exupery.


502. “Nothing ever goes my way.” Choose your hard quotes.


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


504. Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Arthur Golden


505. “Hate no one, no matter how much they’ve wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you’ve been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib


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


507. “You start with a darkness to move through, but sometimes the darkness moves through you. ” – Dean Young, ‘Skid,’ 2002


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


509. “There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”—Alexandre Dumas


510. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” - Jacques Prevert511. “After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem, there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. ” – William R. Alger


512. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. — Eleanor Roosevelt


513. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln


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


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


516. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”


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


518. “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day. ” –Unknown


519. The best worship is to ease one’s hard life in any way possible; no holy books, no rules, no temples, none is necessary


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


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


522. “Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ” - Albert Einstein


523. Facing your fears is hard. Letting them control you is hard. Choose your hard.


524. Sometimes life’s hard, Sometimes it’s easy, Sometimes I thought of quitting, After some time it becomes every time. But then I look to my near ones & sometimes become sometimes525. Grief and resilience live together. — Michelle Obama


526. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche527. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Moliere


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


529. “Hard times are good in their own way, too. The only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. ” – Gabrielle Williams


530. “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. ” –Dale Carnegie


531. “Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning. ” – Angeline Trevena


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


533. Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. — Bob Riley


534. Seeking help is hard. Suffering in silence is hard. Choose your hard.


535. “The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.” – Michael Bassey Johnson


536. “Pain is your friend; it is your alie. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you’re not dead yet!” – G. I Jane


537. “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


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


539. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded. ” — Jack Canfield


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


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


542. You have to look bad before you can look really good. ” - Barbara DeAngelis


543. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.544. “You have to conquer every obstacle before you can reach the top of the mountain.” – Lailah Gifty Akita


545. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. ” — Theodore Roosevelt


546. . . . a lot of people have a hard life. They give up too easily, or they stop figuring out how to improve their lives and those around them. V. Noot, Don't Give Up


547. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.


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


549. “Problems are not stopped signs, they are guidelines. ” – Robert Schuller


550. “Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” – Elie Weisel


551. “Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!” ~ Robert H. Schuller


552. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill


553. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ” — Louisa May Alcott554. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”—Joshua J. Marine


555. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.”


556. “This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it’s very hard to bear” ~ Gerry Mulligan


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


558. “Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.”


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


560. Not all inspirational quotes work for everyone,You’ve got to find the ones that work best for you in your hard times


561. “Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. ” — Anton Chekhov562. You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley


563. “The ones who say you can’t are too afraid you will. ”


564. Life will never, ever be easy,It will always have moments and seasons of hard,But we can choose our hard, so let’s choose wisely


565. “Life is hard? True – but let’s love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.” ~ Edward Abbey


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


567. “If 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


568. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”


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


570. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”


571. Being happy doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It just means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections572. “If you are going through hell, keep going. ” – Winston Churchill


573. Thich Nhat Hanh Says Tomorrow is Another Day


574. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ”– Robert Schuller575. Obesity is hard. Being fit is hard. Choose your hard.


576. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.


577. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ” –Babe Ruth578. “Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.’ - Jonathan Anthony Burkett


579. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa580. “Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds. ” — Marta581. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit. ” - Napoleon Hill


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


583. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”584. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ” – Albert Einstein


585. “Meet problems and obstacles arise. The test of a successful person is not the ability to eliminate all problems before he takes action, but rather the ability to find solutions to difficulties when he encounters them. ” – David J. Schwartz, ‘The Magic of Thinking Big,’ 1959


586. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells


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


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


589. “Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”


590. “Our goodness is our wealth, and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth.” – Mehmet Murat ildan


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


592. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”


593. “The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?” – Greg Plitt


594. “If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more. ” – Joyce Meyer


595. “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” ~ Lucille Ball


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


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


598. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable


599. “If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ” – Joseph Addison


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


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


602. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks, 1869


603. “Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch. ” –Tug McGraw604. “If you stop, you’ll lose everything. You’ve got to keep going. ” – Greyson Chance


605. Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.606. Making a decision is hard. Staying in limbo is hard. Choose your hard.


607. “Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”


608. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.


609. “Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds. ” – Ana Claudia Antunes


610. 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.


611. “When the show’s not around any more, it’s going to be hard not to have her in my life.” ~ Gillian Anderson612. “Sometimes a hard day’s work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.” ~ Chris LeDoux


613. “Life is a circle of happiness, sadness, hard times, and good times. If you are going through a hard time, know that good times are on the way. ”


614. Taking responsibility is hard. Blaming others is hard. Choose your hard.


615. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”616. “No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. ” – Epictetus


617. “Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end. ” – Roy T. Bennett, ‘The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life,’ 2020618. “Don’t let your past dictate your future.” – Oprah Winfrey.


619. “Affliction is a good man's shining time.” - Edward Young


620. “Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” - Elie Weisel


621. “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 DeAngelis622. “Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. ” –Robert Schuller


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


624. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. ” – Paulo Coelho, ‘The Alchemist,’ 1988


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


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


627. “I’m not sure I can do this.”, Read More: Top 20 Kyrie Irving Quotes to Inspire You.


628. “If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.” – Zig Ziglar


629. “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger


630. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar631. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.632. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”


633. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. - Robert Schuller


634. “If you never give up, you’ll be successful. ” – Dan O’Brien


635. “In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going. ” – John Daly636. “Quit complaining about life’s burdens, a dung beetle carries up 1000 times its own body weight.”


637. William Hazlitt Knows the Lessons in Both

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