100 Inspirational Quotes to Uplift You During Hard Times

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

- Stephen Covey

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."

- Andrew Solomon

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

- Robert Schuller

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me."

- Walt Disney

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway."

- Cheryl Strayed

"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.

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep going"

- Martin Luther King jr.

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

- Helen Keller

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience."

- Eric Greitens

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”"

- Rudyard Kipling

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong... I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present."

- Steve Goodier

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."

- Yasmin Mogahed

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"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

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

- Ambrose Redmoon

"There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength."

- Chris Bradford

"Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient."

- Catherine DeVrye

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Michael Jordan

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don't have strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it."

- Joel Osteen

"What does not kill me makes me stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender. That is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"She stood in the storm, & and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Energy and persistence conquers all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin."

- Gregory S Williams

"A good half of the art of living is resilience."

- Alain de Botton

"Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible."

- Mike Norton

"We all have battles to fight. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work."

- Eric Greitens

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong."

- Margaret George

"Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain."

- Emil Dorian

"Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able."

- Corrie ten Boom

"It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks."

- Bob Richards

"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, Never settle for the path of least resistance."

- Lee Ann Womack

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Chuck Swindoll

"One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."

- Michael J. Fox

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

- Criss Jami

"Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."

- Jonathan Mills

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive."

- Jean Chatzky

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

- Thomas Paine

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

- Bob Riley

"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

- William Ellery Channing

"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."

- Rita Mero

"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can't take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."

- Ryder Carroll

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."

- Dalai Lama

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."

- Ovid

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

"When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience."

- Jaeda Dewalt

"Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others."

- Sharon Salzberg

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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 S. Forbes

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance."

- Gabrielle Williams

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

- Henry Ford

"Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging."

- Carrie Fisher

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

- Samuel Johnson

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

- Gillian Anderson

"When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision—then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"You’ve got to be brave and you’ve got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s good and what’s bad."

- Robert Frost

"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook."

- Haile Selassie

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination."

- Maya Angelou

"When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."

- Winston Churchill

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right."

- Rosa Parks

"Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Conquering others is power; conquering oneself is strength."

- Lao Tzu

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."

- Audrey Hepburn

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

- Brené Brown

"One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope."

- Alain de Botton

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it."

- Epictetus

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine."

- Mark Nepo

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

"What makes you different or weird, that's your strength."

- Meryl Streep

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"We will either find a way, or make one."

- Anibal Barca

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"I’ve learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me—the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived."

- Oprah Winfrey

"That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere… Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to recall even such hardships."

- Virgil

"Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."

- Margaret Mitchell

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"In every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on."

- James Frey

"Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

- Phyllis Bottome

"Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure."

- Napoleon Hill

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free."

- Kavita Ramdas

"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."

- Demi Lovato

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

- Bram Stoker

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

- Charles Dickens

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."

- Shane Koyczan

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."

- Mizuta Masahide

"You survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around you. I fell down into that dark chasm, but the flame burned on and on."

- Joshua Graham

"Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin’ the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it’s not all like that. A lot of it’s mighty fine, and you can’t afford to waste the good part frettin’ about the bad. That makes it all bad…. Sure, I know – sayin’ it’s one thing and feelin’ it’s another. But I’ll tell you a trick that’s sometimes a big help. When you start lookin’ around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."

- Jim Coates, Old Yeller

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together."

- Mother Teresa

"What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength."

- Meryl Streep

"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."

- Wes Fessler

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

- William James

"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."

- Zahid Abas

"When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers."

- Grizz Chapman

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

- Coco Chanel

"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot

"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help."

- John F. Kennedy

"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature."

- Bram Stoker

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

- Toni Morrison

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

"It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."

- George R.R. Martin

"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"My strength is as the strength of 10, / Because my heart is pure."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- William Samuel Johnson

"There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"The only failure is not to try"

- George Clooney

"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."

- Anne LaMott

"I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me."

- Norman Maclean

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who make excuses."

- George Washington

"We must always deal from strength and insist on verification of every agreement. In my meetings with the General Secretary I repeated several times a Russian proverb: ‘Doveryai no proveryai’—'Trust but verify.’"

- Ronald Reagan

"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."

- Jon Krakauer

"Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have."

- Art Buchwald

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things."

- Ken Kesey

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

- Gautama Buddha

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

- Veronica Roth

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."

- Uncle Iroh

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

- Timon

"Freud's favourite quote for rough times is from Milton's Paradise Lost: '[Let us consult] what reinforcement we may gain from hope, if not what resolution from despair.'"

- Milton

"Should I, after tea and cakes and ices / Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"

- T.S. Eliot

"The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy."

- Arthur Miller

"All great and precious things are lonely."

- John Steinbeck

"This too shall pass."

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"This too shall come to pass. Just hold on."

"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

"I am stronger than I am broken."

"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty."

"You can't skip chapters, that's not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won't enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don't want to read, you will have moments when you don't want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don't miss out."

"The darkest nights, produce the brightest stars"

"In the midst of winter, I found within me an invincible summer"

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."

"Before something great happens, everything falls apart"

"To make something special, you just have to believe it's special."

"Harder the struggle, more glorious the triumph!!!"

"It is what it is but it will become what you make it."

"people don’t care about what you do right or what you do wrong….everyone is so wrapped up in themselves, they will forget about your triumphs and your mistakes way before you do."