Quotes about Hard Times

Let these Hard Times Quotes help you when living through your own difficult times.

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
- Michelle Obama

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- Forrest Gump movie

Quotes for When Times are Hard

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Uplifting Quotes

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.
- attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
- A Course In Miracles

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
- Marie Curie

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Relationships

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

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