Hard Times Quotes: 30 Words to Strengthen You Amidst Life’s Toughest Moments

1. “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

2. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Chuck Swindoll

3. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” — Alain de Botton

4. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” — Emil Dorian

5. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo, far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

6. “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

7. “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 made me better equipped to face the present.” — Steve Goodier

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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