Uplifting In Hard Times Quotes:

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Getting Through Hard Times, When Things Get Tough

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Time To Move On

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Airplane, Wind, Difficult Life, Inspirational Perseverance, Leaders Motivational

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Time To Move On, Cycle Of Life

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

- Bob Riley

topic: Strength, Hero, Hard Times, Going Through Hard Times, Uplifting In Hard Times

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Failure, Make You Think Twice, Innovation Inspiration

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Confidence And Courage, Uplifting In Hard Times

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live For Yourself, Life Going On

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

- Og Mandino

source: "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Stars, Spiritual Darkness, Spiritual Light

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Believe, Today, Bears, Going Through Hard Times, Losing Faith

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

- Epictetus

topic: Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting, Inspirational Adversity, Uplifting In Hard Times

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Cancer, Hard Times, Tough Times, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Choose Wisely, Get Over Yourself

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

- William Samuel Johnson

topic: Positive, Adversity, Mets, Feeling Down, Strength In Adversity

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Difficult Life, Leaders Motivational

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Cancer, Do Not Give Up

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Positive, Teacher, Adversity, Getting Through Hard Times, Going Through Hard Times

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

- John H. Groberg

source: John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

topic: Positive, Inspiration, Way, Uplifting In Hard Times

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Make Someone Happy, Joy Happiness

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Running, Life Being Hard, Getting Through Hard Times

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

topic: Inspiring, Stay Strong, Inspiration, Inspirational Stay Strong, Enjoy Your Life

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Soul Life

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Positive, Uplifting, Hope, Going Through Hard Times, Losing Faith

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Happiness, Women, Hard Times, Uplifting In Hard Times

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Gratitude, Men, Joy, Just Be Happy, Secret To Happiness

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

- Ulysses S. Grant

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Positive, Gloom, Getting Through Hard Times

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Positive, Cheer, Feeling Down, Rough Day

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Just Give Up, Strength In Hard Times

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

- Alton Brown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solo Travel, Soul Life

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Uplifting In Hard Times

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Baseball, Just Give Up, Strength In Hard Times

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Help With Depression, Uplifting In Hard Times

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Giving Up, Athlete, Grieving, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

- Robert H. Schuller

source: "Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Moving On, Solved Problems, Having A Bad Day

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

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

- John Bonifaz

topic: War, Done, Impossible, Journey Inspirational, Journey To Success

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

- George Adair

topic: Inspirational, Sides, Wanted, Fear None, Inspirational Career

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Friedrich Koenig

topic: Happiness, Appreciate, Forget, Always Happy, Happy Times

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Motivational, Hard Times, Past, Going Through Hard Times, Hard Rock