100 Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
Looking for the best quotes about hard times? Here are the 100 BEST bad time quotes about hard times to inspire you daily.
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Bad time quotes truly have the power to change your life.
They perfectly encapsulate the feelings you’re having about a particular issue.
Quotes about hard times are raw, beautiful and tap into a part of your soul that feels both understood and reflective.
If you want to know the 100 best quotes about hard times, you have come to the right place.
So, without further ado, here are the 100 BEST QUOTES about HARD TIMES:
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
1 – When everything seems to be against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
2 – Tough times never last but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller
3 – Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton
4 – If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
5 – You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis
6 – The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. Ernest Hemingway
7 – People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable. – Simon Sinek
8 – We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges. Joyce Meyer
9 – You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. Cayla Mills
10 – Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. – Oprah Winfrey
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
11 – Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
12 – Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
13 – Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran
14 – Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. – Groucho Marx
15 – Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard time when the “hero” within us is revealed. Bob Riley
16 – Bad decisions make good stories. – Ellis Vidler
17 – It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. – Madeleine Albright
18 – The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
19 – Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. George S. Patton
20 – Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
21 – I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt
22 – Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. Oprah Winfrey
23 – You’ve got to Stay Strong to be strong in tough times. -Tilman J. Fertitta
24 – If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond
25 – Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Mandy Hale
26 – One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. Shannon L. Alder
27 – Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive it isn’t. – Richard Bach
28 – It is during the toughest times of your life that you will see the true colors of the people who say they care for you.
29 – When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris
30 – When you face difficult times know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
31 – Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. – Brené Brown
32 – Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong but because you’re doing something right.
33 – In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on – Robert Frost
34 – Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less. Steve Goodier
35 – When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph Kennedy
36 – Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. —Robert Schuller
37 – It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.– Confucius
38 – Big shots are only little shots who kept shooting. – Christopher Morley
39 – Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.
40 – A gem cannot be polished without a friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
41 – You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.– James Allen
42 – If you stop, you’ll lose everything. You’ve got to keep going. –Greyson Chance
43 – Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
44 – Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. Nicole Reed
45 – Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. – Audre Lorde
46 – Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike. Lailah Gifty Akita
47 – Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
48 – Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard
49 – When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
50 – We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
51 – Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once. The winner stands alone. – Paulo Coelho
52 – Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go. – Nicole Kidman.
53 – Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prevert
54 – Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde
55 – Your thorns are the best part of you. Marianne Moore
56 – Please do not allow the challenges of your past to stop you from becoming who you are meant to be.
57 – Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise, you just get confused. – Cliff Burton
58 – Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Kayyam
59 – Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Jack Canfield
60 – Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move. Henry Rollins
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
61 – Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. – Denis Waitley
62 – No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them. Alana Stewart
63 – You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.– Margaret Thatcher
64 – Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene
65 – Don’t allow other people to hold the key to your peace of mind.
66 – A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. Henry Kissinger
67 – Fall down seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
68 – Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. – George Whitefield
69 – Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha
70 – 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
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
71 – The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Japanese Proverb
72 – Resilience is silent and deep, like roots. It doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t explode outward. It doesn’t fall. It doesn’t break. It simply always is. And you are. Victoria Erickson
73 – There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes but with hard work. There are no limits. Michael Phelps
74 – Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence. – Sarah Dessen
75 – It may sound strange but many champions are made champions by setbacks. Bob Richards
76 – The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones.
77 – Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.– Francis Chan
78 – Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. Susan Gale
79 – The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.
80 – Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. —Les Brown
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
81 – A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.
82 – Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
83 – 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
84 – In hard times no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. Horace
85 – You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom. Roz Inga
86 – There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat. Brandy Norwood
87 – You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. – George Lucas
88 – Adversity introduces a man to himself. Albert Einstein
89 – We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Barbara De Angelis
90 – What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.– Colette
Quotes About Hard Times – Best Bad Time Quotes For Hope
91 – Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee
92 – When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress. Kevin Kelly
93 – The success gate is far at the end of the long failure corridor. Keep moving no matter how many potholes you step into. You will get there with time! – Israelmore Ayivor
94 – The more humble a person is, the freer and stronger he is. Leo Tolstoy
95 – Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. Drew Barrymore
96 – 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
97 – If you embrace your flaws, nobody can use them against you.– Cara Alwill Leyba
98 – Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. C.S. Lewis
99 – 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
100 – If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.– Mary Engelbreit
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