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Hard Times Quotes
- “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Character is the virtue of hard times.” – Charles de Gaulle
- “Do not be concerned too much with what will happen. Everything which happens will be good and useful for you.” – Epictetus
- “In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.” – Horace
- “At night, especially, it is beautiful to believe in the light.” – Plato
- “Tonight we cry, we despair, and we fear. Tomorrow we get back to work trying to build the world we want.” – Sam Altman
- “Master the art of doing things you don’t feel like doing, and you’ll go quite far.” – Thibaut
- “You have the power to change anything.” – Rhonda Byrne
- “Sometimes the tide is with us, and sometimes against. But we keep swimming either way.” – Charlie Munger
- “Life is a storm that will test you unceasingly. Don’t wait for calm waters that may not arrive. Derive purpose from resilience. Learn to sail the raging sea.” – TheStoicEmperor
- “Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “If you want to save your soul, forget about your comfort.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Things worth having are worth waiting for.” – Paulo Coelho
- “You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” – Robin Williams
- “The more humble a person is, the freer and stronger he is.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “There’s no such thing as a “bad experience,” only an experience that we fail to utilize.” – Mark Manson
- “Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.” – Kevin Kelly
- “Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.” – Malcolm Gladwell
- “If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.” – Kamal Ravikant
- “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
- “The people who did the hard, unpopular, disciplined things during the good times are the ones set up to thrive during the bad times.” – Anthony Pompliano
- “The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.” – James Clear
- “When times are hard and you are mentally and physically exhausted and feel like you have nothing left and all you want to do is quit, that’s when you find out who you are! Stay hard!” – David Goggins
- “Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know.” – Amy Poehler
- “The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.” – John Vance Cheney
- “Realists are not afraid to look at the harsh circumstances of life.” – Robert Greene
- “It will work if you forget all the reasons it will not.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Character is developed in the tough times, when we’re not getting our way but we keep doing the right thing.” – Joel Osteen
- “As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die sometimes.” – Orson Scott Card
- “When it’s tough, lean in and stay strong. Remember it’s for the better. It’s for you, not against you.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “People who try to force circumstances become their slaves. Those who use them become their masters.” – The Talmud
- “Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.” – Rumi
- “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” – Leo Suenens
- “You can’t calm the storm… so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” – Timber Hawkeye
- “You can handle anything if you can handle time alone.” – orangebook_
- “Talent is nothing but long patience.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Don’t give up what you want most, for what you want now.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo
- “I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.” – Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
- “Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.” – Alice Walker
- “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” – Coco Chanel
- “It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.” – K. Rowling
- “Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.” – 14th Dalai Lama
- “Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.” – Jewel
- “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
- “Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.” – Mike Tyson
- “The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter than ever.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “There were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times.” – Steve Jobs
- “Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.” – Winston Churchill
- “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
- “Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.” – Abdul Kalam
- “Problems are messages.” – Shakti Gawain
- “Persist.” – Jack Butcher
- “There are no straight lines.” – Tony Robbins
- “Wisdom is knowing when to end.” – Robert Greene
- “Dark times are not hopeless times.” – David Goggins
- “There is no failure. Only feedback.” – Robert Allen
- “Become comfortable with not knowing.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Every downturn had ended in an upturn.” – Noah Kerner
- “Suffering is when we resist the moment.” – Kamal Ravikant
- “A happy life doesn’t mean an easy life.” – Thibaut
- “Hard times produce your greatest gifts.” – Robin Sharma
- “In order to win, you must expect to win.” – Richard Bach
- “It’s only pain that can make you change.” – Naval Ravikant
- “Hard times always lead to something great.” – Betsey Johnson
- “Accept hardship as a necessary discipline.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Don’t worry, this isn’t your last mistake.” – @orangebook_
- “Life is given to us not only for pleasures.” – Nikolai Gogol
- “If there is no struggle there is no progress.” – Kimberly Jones
- “You need hard times to become strong, otherwise you stay weak.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Breathe deeply and often. This too shall pass.” – Jason Garner
- “There’s no such things as failure, only results.” – Tony Robbins
- “Successful people failed more than most made attempts.” – @orangebook_
- “Pros are just amateurs who learned from their mistakes.” – James Clear
- “Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.” – Tony Robbins
- “The universe is sending you exactly what you need. Keep trusting.” – Andrew Zaffina
- “When we go all in, we find the answers. They’re in us.” – Kamal Ravikant
- “We have the opportunity, even in difficult times, to let our spirit shine.” – Jack Kornfield
- “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
- “In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.” – Sarah Wilson
- “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
- “Start believing again; start dreaming again. Start talking like it’s going to happen; start acting like it’s going to happen.” – Joel Osteen
- “Give yourself a break. Life isn’t easy, especially now. It’s okay to be human, to feel all the emotions that come with difficult moments like these. Breathe and let go of the judgments and high expectations and just be as you are. You’re good. You’re enough. Just breathe.” – Jason Garner
- “The further you walk away from accountability, the weaker you become. Character is not built on the couch. Stay hard!” – David Goggins
- “The hardest thing in the world is to continuously fall and stay motivated. But those who can will start to create great separation between them and those who choose the path of least resistance.” – David Goggins
- “It’s not supposed to be easy. Life is designed to test the human soul.” – David Goggins
- “When times are hard and you are mentally and physically exhausted and feel like you have nothing left and all you want to do is quit, that’s when you find out who you are.” – David Goggins
- “A true champion has experienced fatigue many times and yet always finds what they still haven’t given.” – David Goggins
- “All you need to do is a little step forward. It’s the hardest part. The rest is easier.” – Gal Shapira
- “Persevere on, my brave lads. We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!” – Swami Vivekananda
- “The hard stuff will always be hard. The scary stuff will always be scary. It won’t ever feel easy and you won’t ever feel like doing it. The real way to move forward is knowing that you can push yourself. You can do it anyway. That’s how you succeed.” – Mel Robbins
- “If things appear to be coming apart, maybe they are just rearranging themselves for a better fit.” – Pawnee Grey
- “Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.” – @TheGodLight
- “Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “When there is harmony between the mind, heart and resolution then nothing is impossible.” – The Vedas
- “It will hurt. It will take time. It will take sacrifice. It will take dedication. It will be worth it.” – Jack Coulson
- “There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as an heroic deed.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Be patient. It will all be fine in the end. Sometimes it’s just longer.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson
- “Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.” – Stanisław Leszczyński
- “In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.” – Randy Pausch
- “If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.” – Seneca
- “Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.” – Bill Hybels
- “But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?” – Joshua Slocum
- “Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “It’s important to be kind to yourself, but also be tough. Be real about where you are and where you want to be. Notice when you are not giving 100% and make sure to get rid of excuses.” – Gal Shapira
- “The perfected future never arrives. Life is full of seemingly endless trouble, and then life ends. Find peace in the imperfect present.” – @TheStoicEmperor
- “Do you understand that the main thing holding you back is your belief that something is holding you back?” – Ralph Marston
- “There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.” – The Panchatantra
- “When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.” – Kevin Kelly
- “Pain doesn’t last. And when it’s gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.” – Kamal Ravikant
- “We should manage fortune like our health, enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad, and never resort to strong remedies but in an extremity.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
- “Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” – Audre Lorde
- “You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “If you only keep pushing when it makes sense, you’ll never accomplish anything great.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “Virtue begins only when there is an effort.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Planning for failure is a crucial part of success.” – James Clear
- “Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.” – Anton Chekhov