60 Life Is Hard Quotes To Lighten Your Load

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
- Maya Angelou

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.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.
- Joel Osteen

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

You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
- Brian Tracy

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

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis

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

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Kahlil Gibran

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.
- Gregory S. Williams

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou

No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can't take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action.
- Ryder Carroll

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen R. Covey

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

If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.
- Wayne W. Dyer

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
- Chuck Swindoll

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.
- Will Hurd

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

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
- Chris Bradford

If you're not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there's no point. You win only if you're willing to do whatever it takes.
- Hidilyn Diaz

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be better off than before.
- Joel Osteen

You can do anything, but not everything.
- David Allen

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
- Samuel Smiles

Nobody’s perfect, so give yourself credit for everything you’re doing right, and be kind to yourself when you struggle.
- Lori Deschene

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
- Roy T. Bennett

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, Never settle for the path of least resistance.
- Lee Ann Womack

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis Of Assisi

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

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
- Yasmin Mogahed

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
- Nelson Mandela

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Tough times never last. Tough people do.
- Robert Schuller

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

Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient.
- Catherine DeVrye

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
- Angela Duckworth

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
- Bob Marley

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.
- Jim Carrey

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.
- Thomas Paine

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Michael J. Fox