If you came here looking for quotes about difficult times, you are in the right place!
Below is a list of the most emotional and uplifting quotes about difficult times that will help motivate you to get through the hardships, failures, heartbreak, rejection, and challenges you are going through.
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67+ Inspiring Quotes About Difficult Times
1. “Fall seven times stand up eight.” – Unknown
2. “Character is the virtue of hard times.” – Charles de Gaulle
3. “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Unknown
4. “The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.” – Morris Mandel
5. “Keep your head up. Keep your heart strong.” – Proverb
6. “Hard times will always reveal true friends.” – Proverb
7. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” – Proverb
8. “Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.” – Unknown
9. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are at.” – Theodore Roosevelt
10. “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.” – Proverb
11. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.” – Steve Martin
12. “In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.” – Blaise Pascual
13. “When you come to the end of your rope, a tie knot a hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” – Pema Chodron
15. “Stay positive even when it feels like your life is falling apart.” – Unknown
16. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen Hawking
17. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Proverb
18. “It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” – Bob Richards
19. “A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but its persistence.” – Unknown
20. “Being positive in a negative situation isn’t naive it’s called leadership.” – Proverb
21. “Keep your head up. God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.” – Proverb
22. “Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what you deserve.” – Proverb
23. “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.
24. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
25. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Proverb
26. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “If you can imagine it, you can create. If you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward
28. “Hope is the little voice you hear whisper maybe when the whole world shouts no.” – Proverb
29. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
30. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Unknown
31. “When you feel like you’re drowning in life, don’t worry-your lifeguard walks on water.” – Unknown
32. “When times are difficult to remind yourself that no pain comes to you without a purpose.” – Unknown
33. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, It is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
34. “Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.” – Barbara De Angelis
35. “It’s your road and you alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Unknown
36. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” – Unknown
37. “Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.” – Steve Goodier
38. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed.” – Proverb
39. “Be strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.” – Unknown
40. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘HERO’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
41. “The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people, the more peaceful your life becomes.” – Mandy Hale
42. “The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see the true colors of everyone. -” – Proverb
43. “When everything seems to be against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind not with it.” – Henry Ford
44. “During difficult times, I’m wishing you the warmth of the sun, the love of family, and a gentle breeze.” – Unknown
45. “From the outside looking in, it’s hard to understand. From the inside looking out, it’s hard to explain.” – Unknown
46. “The strongest people make time to help others, even if they’re struggling with their own personal demons.” – Unknown
47. “If you are going through difficult times, keep trusting God. He knows how to bless you in unexpected ways.” – Proverb
48. “I have come to understand the world will have its way with us despite what we might wish, or once believed. -” – Ron Rash
49. “Life may seem hard but god is just testing your faith remain diligent and he shall reveal what your heart desires.” – Unknown
50. “Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, But because you’re doing something right.” – Proverb
51. “When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” – Unknown
52. “I choose you. And I’ll choose you, over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep you choosing you.” – Unknown
53. “Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on hard days you know that are better ones coming.” – Proverb
54. “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
55. “Someone who truly loves you sees what a mess you can be, How moody you cant get. and how hard you can be to handle. But still wants you.” – Unknown
56. “When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They are sent to promote, increase, and strengthen you.” – Unknown
57. “Do not lose hope, please believe that there are a thousand beautiful things waiting for you. Sunshine comes to all who feel the rain. –Â ” – Proverb
58. “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
59. “The most dangerous risk of all. The risk of spending your life, not doing what you want, on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
60. “I past through the difficult moments in life. really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.” – Marat Safin
61. “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.
62. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” – Unknown
63. “No tiredness, exhaustion, worry, grief, distress or harm befalls a believer in this world, not even a Thom that pricks him, but Allah expiates some of his sins thereby.” – Unknown
64. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” – Proverb
65. “Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams; there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
66. “Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” – Karen Blixen