No matter what job or industry you’re in, life is hard, but we’re all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together. In my opinion, the main purpose of life is happiness and you can only be happy when you pay gratitude to the things you have. Well in this post I’ve compiled best quotes about life is hard. Quotes that will help you in your difficult times and quotes that will motivate you when you get through tough times.
Remember These Quotes When Life Gets Hard (Quotes with Images)
1.“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.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
2. “When I hear somebody say ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask ‘Compared to what?'” – Sydney J. Harris
3. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz
4. “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
5. “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.” – Deepak Chopra
6. “I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.” – Tracee Ellis Ross
7. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” – Shaun Hick
8. “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
9. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca
10. “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” – Albert Schweitzer
11. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
12. “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. Forbes
Life Is Hard Quotes
13. Life is hard, Life is difficult, Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behaviour. When your behaviour changes, so do your results. –Will Hurd
14. No matter what job or industry you’re in, life is hard, but we’re all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together. -Eric Nam
15. I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it’s all easy. –Jamie Lee Curtis
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16. Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour. – Carolina Herrera
17. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
18. Life is hard. Then you die, Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. -David Gerrold
19. “You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.” – Joel Osteen
20. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
21. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
22. “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
Short Life Quotes on Difficult Times
23. Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want. -Dizzee Rascal
24. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
25. Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it. -Aidan Quinn
26. “You start with a darkness to move through, but sometimes the darkness moves through you.” – Dean Young
27. Life is hard, but we make it much harder. – Ryan Holiday
28. “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – John Wooden
29. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
30. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
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31. “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
32. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” – William Samuel Johnson
33. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”—Joshua J. Marine
34. “Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” – Francis Bacon
35. “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain.” – Deepak Chopra
Quotes About When You Getting Through Tough Times
36. “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.” – William Hazlitt
37. “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
38. “Sometimes the worst thing happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive… it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.” – Jennifer Weiner
39. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
40. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
41. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
42. “One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” – Albert Schweitzer
43. “It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.” – Dalai Lama
44. “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
45. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” – Epictetus
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46. “A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” – John Maxwell
47. “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
48. “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
49. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” – Seneca
50. “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
Inspiring Quotes that help you when Life is Difficult
51. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
52. “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
53. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.”—Unknown
54. “No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself.”—Unknown
55. “Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”—Author Unknown
56. “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
57. “If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
58. Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. – Caitlyn Jenner
59. “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
60. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”—William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
61. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”—Bernice Johnson Reagon
62. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”—Bernice Johnson Reagon
63. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”—William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
64. “It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata
65. “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
When Things Gets Tough Quotes
66. “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
67. “Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them, Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.” – Norman Vincent Peale
68. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
69. “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
70. “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
71. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
– Epicetus
72. “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.” – Deepak Chopra
73. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
74. “I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.” – Dr. Seuss
75. “To have darkness behind me, in front of me a bright sky, flickering lights on the water and to feel it on the stony face of the southern sun.”– Julia Hartwig
76. “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. Forbes
Short Motivational Quotes About When Life Gets Hard
77. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
78. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
79. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb
80. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca
81. “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King
82. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
83. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
84. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
85. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
86. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.” – Confucius
87. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”—Confucius
88. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”—Joseph Kennedy
89. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
90. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”– William Samuel Johnson
91. “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
92. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
93. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
94. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
95. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. –Thomas Edison
96. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” –Wayne Dyer
97. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” –Muhammad Ali
98. “A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” –John Burroughs
99. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” –James Cameron
100. “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” –Tom Bradley
I’m Murshid Akram, a introvert who love reading and sharing positive vibes through quotes and sayings. I believe with love and compassion we can make this world a better place.