Browsing Topic Best Hard Times Quotes

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

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

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Sometimes, it’s just your turn to go through hard times.

Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The Niagara on a bicycle. It’s like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it’s an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.

At times you have to walk your path alone. It can be hard, but those are the times that build character and make you stronger.

Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can’t people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing