Life has a way of kicking us when we’re down. And just when we think we can’t fall any lower, we get kicked again.
Gilles Douaire
But it’s important to remember that setbacks, failures, and tragedy are a part of life. Whether we manage to find joy and success in the daily struggle of life is largely dependent on our ability to persevere through even the toughest adversity without ever giving up.
If you’re going through a rough time, reading some uplifting quotes can help you remember that life isn’t always bad. These seemingly long stretches of fear, disappointment, pain, and heartache are just brief, insignificant moments of time that will pass.
Here are some of the best inspirational quotes for difficult times we could find to lift your spirits up:
Uplifting Quotes
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King
“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
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” – Albert Schweitzer
“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
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” – Epicetus
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.” – William Hazlitt
“Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” – Francis Bacon
“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.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“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.” – Leroy Satchel Paige
“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” – L.M. Montgomery
“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 Weisel
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Nelson Mandela
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca
“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H Schuller
“If it’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.” – Sara Evans
“Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!” – Yvonne Pierre
“I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.” – Dr. Seuss
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” – Publilius Syrus
“Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
“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
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” -John Wooden
“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.” – Deepak Chopra
“To have darkness behind me, in front of me a bright sky, flickering lights on the water and to feel it on the stony face of the southern sun.” – Julia Hartwig
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” – Jacques Prevert
“Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up, as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.” – Confucius
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim rohn
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen
“To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.” – Barbara DeAngelis
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” – Seneca
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” – Jewish Proverb
“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
“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” – William Samuel Johnson
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
We hope you enjoyed these uplifting quotes. If you have any quotes that weren’t included that you’d like to share, feel free to do so in the comments below.
the quotes are inspiring and life touching. I would like to have some in my mail box please. Thanks
BE THE TESTIMONY IN ONES LIFE AND SHOW THEM GOD’S WORK IN YOU
KNOWLEDGE IS GAINED BY OTHER PEOPLE’S REALITY
Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
When people judge you,don’t feel bad jst know that somthing is wrong with them so they judge you to make themselves feel better
So true. I’m 60 and my sister in law once told me I was too old to get married. The other day she told me I was too old to get a good job.
I really felt better after reading such uplifting words.Truly life goes on forward not backward change belongs to present and future not the past.
Nice quotes……….
Great quotes!! Really can lift a person from darkness.
The qoutes just wiped the worst pain that was in my heart and made me believe that im a human being and im capable of doing anything
The night becomes darker before it becomes dawn. Always rise to the challenge never let challenge defeat you.
Failure teaches success.
-Chinese Proverb
Love this! From the poem Don’t Quit: “When things go wrong as they sometimes will……rest if you must but don’t quit.”
You’re never without hope as long as you believe that every dream lost a new one will take it’s place, for every problem a solution will a rise, like an angle watching over us, helps seems to materialize when you need it the most.
It may not always come exactly when you want it, but when it comes, it comes right on time.
I don’t believe in mistakes, it’s God way of telling you you’re going in the wrong direction.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
we should always learn to remember that what counts in our lives is not the mere fact that we have lived but the difference we have made in other people’s lives determines the significance of the life we lived.
If you’re having a bad day. Like for kids if they have a test coming up & didn’t do well. One of there friends might say this idom There is always a silver lining. Or for adults they got a ticket but before you know it you might win a lottery ticket or you might find a 20 dollar bill. I always liked this idol & when I was in school it helped me. Maybe I had a bad day & I couldn’t wait to see my mom & get my favorite drink. Or maybe I had a tough day but in between classes there might be a bake sale & I would treat myself which made me happy but I also knew I was helping them to which made me happy. Thanks to my speech teacher from school & it makes life easier for me to handle & made me ?.
only the strong and tough will make it to the top.So keep pushing and never give up.
Your teachings were great they motivated in my downfalls, I already got lifted up by just going through all of them