Hitting rock bottom is no doubt tough, but in the future when looking back, this is a moment that can define who you are. Because of this, I have found some of the best quotes about hitting rock bottom that are sure to inspire! 🙌
Below, you will find some of the most motivational, wise, insightful, eye-opening, revealing, compassionate, and inspiring quotes about hitting rock bottom.
Side note: If I have missed any famous or iconic sayings or quotes about hitting rock bottom, please comment below and I will be sure to include them in this list! 😃
91+ Quotes About Hitting Rock Bottom
1. “Your breakdown is a breakthrough.” – Andrea Benito
2. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Unknown
3. “Rock bottom is a beautiful start.” – Unknown
4. “Everyone hits bottom their own way.” – Eileen Brennan
5. “To hit bottom is to fall from grace.” – Douglas Horton
6. “Keep going, the best is yet to come.” – Unknown
7. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
8. “I’m like a phoenix, I rise from the ashes.” – Bess Myerson
9. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” – Unknown
10. “At my lowest, I was making nothing, of course.” – Teri Hatcher
11. “What you become depends on what you can overcome.” – Anthony Douglas Williams
12. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” – Winston Churchill
Famous Quotes About Hitting Rock Bottom
13. “What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.” – Zig Ziglar
14. “The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.” – Richard Paul Evans
15. “At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.” – Sigmund Freud
16. “You will only hit rock bottom when you stop digging. ” – Unknown
17. “Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” – Rumi
18. “Success is how high you bounce after hitting the bottom.” – George S. Patton
19. “It was rock bottom. It couldn’t get any worse than that.” – Martin Biron
20. “Hitting rock bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Michelle Parsons
21. “When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.” – Pattie Mallette
22. “I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.” – Stevie Ray Vaughan
23. “But I was empty inside. I was spiritually at rock-bottom.” – Jonathan Byrd
24. “How could you rise anew if you first did not become ashes?” – Nietzche
25. “Hitting rock bottom is an opportunity to rebuild yourself.” – Unknown
26. “Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.” – Publilius Syrus
27. “Before something great happens, everything will fall apart.” – Unknown
Inspirational Quotes About Hitting Rock Bottom
28. “Bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.” – JK Rowling
29. “Sometimes against all odds, against all logic, we still hope.” – Unknown
30. “Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.” – Unknown
31. “Always make a total effort; even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer
32. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, It’s whether you get up.” – Kevin Durant
33. “Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.” – Anthony Liccione
34. “Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.” – Toni Sorenson
35. “Rock bottom has built more heroes than any privilege ever could.” – Unknown
36. “Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.” – R.M. Drake
37. “Strength and growth only come from continuous effort and struggle.” – Napolean Hill
38. “I don’t believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.” – Charlie Sheen
39. “Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can reach the top.” – Unknown
40. “You can’t truly appreciate the top if you’ve never hit rock bottom.” – Vanna B.
41. “When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.” – Guillaume Musso
42. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
43. “There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
44. “You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.” – Gabrielle Reece
45. “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J. K. Rowling
46. “And the best part about rock bottom is that you can only go up from there.” – Quinn Loftis
47. “Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, you got nowhere to go but up, baby.” – Ludacris
48. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.” – Confuscious
Motivational Quotes About Hitting Rock Bottom
49. “It sounds to me like he’s hit rock bottom and he’s asking to be disciplined.” – Tony Banks
50. “The only good thing about hitting rock bottom is that it can’t get any worse.” – Unknown
51. “Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough.” – Unknown
52. “I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds.” – Louis Nizer
53. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
54. “The view from rock bottom is often the reason, the inspiration, for getting back up.” – Unknown
55. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
56. “God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He’s the rock-at the bottom.” – Kirk Franklin
57. “This is what they call “hitting rock bottom,” and they call it that because it rocks.” – Rob Sheffield
58. “Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.” – Buddy Buie
59. “When you have hit rock bottom and survived, there are very few things that can scare you.” – Unknown
60. “Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, you realize you’re standing on another trapdoor.” – Marisha Pessl
61. “If you fall behind, run faster, never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.” – Jesse Jackson
62. “I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person.” – Paul Dano
63. “I’m satisfied to go in at the bottom – that’s the best way to learn what things are all about.” – Cesar Romero
64. “The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.” – Michael Appel
65. “Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover that He is the rock at the bottom.” – Dr. Tony Evans
66. “Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.” – Demi Moore
67. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
68. “We had reached rock bottom. We didn’t want to go bankrupt — we just thought this was the best way out.” – Bobby Foster
69. “People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.” – George Best
70. “It’s gonna be okay. No matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.” – Demi Lovato
71. “You will never know how strong you are until you’ve hit rock bottom. Then you will get up even stronger.” – Unknown
72. “You may think you’ve hit rock bottom in your life but guess what there’s more crud underneath those rocks.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
73. “I think you need to hit rock bottom before you make a decision [about] what you’re going to do in the future.” – Courtney Love
74. “She fell, she crashed, she broke, she cried, she crawled, she hurt, she surrendered, and then… SHE ROSE AGAIN.” – Nausicca Twila
75. “Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you’ve ever been, to stand up taller than you than you ever were.” – Unknown
76. “Never be afraid to fall apart. It represents an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wished you’d been all along.” – Rae Smith
77. “Struggles are required in order to survive in life because in order to stand up you got to know what falling down is like.” – Unknown
78. “Once you hit rock bottom, that’s where you perfectly stand; That’s your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.” – Justin Kanayurak
79. “Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you.” – Unknown
80. “Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.” – Dave Ramsey
81. “I’m always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I’m on the go again.” – Maria Sharapova
82. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I understand who I really was.” – Sade Andria Zabala
83. “It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, ‘What have I done to deserve this?’ I didn’t see the point in living.” – Alesha Dixon
84. “When you feel like you’ve had it up to here, and you’re mad enough to scream, but you’re sad enough to tear, that’s rock bottom.” – Eminem
85. “Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don’t learn from other people’s mistakes.” – Tracy Morgan
86. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi
87. “The human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.” – Harold Russell
88. “When you’re knocked on your back and you life’s a flop, When you’re down on the bottom and there’s nothing else but to shout to the top!” – Paul Weller
89. “Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom?” – Craig Ferguson
90. “There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” – Vaclav Havel
91. “Many have to hit rock bottom before they want to make any changes. We show them they’re not alone, and we offer them the chance to realize they can make those changes.” – Susan Hicks