Motivational Quotes for Hard Times

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Fall down seven times; get up eight."

"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."

"Fail big! Today’s the beginning of the rest of your life."

"Endure, my heart, you have endured worse than this."

"All defeats are temporary. There is no one person with a permanent black cloud following them."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from; you can make it."

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living."

"I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life."

"This, too, will pass."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So, keep moving, keep growing, keep learning!"

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"Wisdom comes through suffering."

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

"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."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow."

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."