“Hard times don’t last forever, hard people do”
― Rehan Khan
Getting Through Hard Times Quotes
No matter where you are in your life right now, hard time is around the corner. Waiting patiently. Hell, maybe you’re going through hard times right now.
Hard times are gonna make you wonder why you even try. What’s the point.
The reality of life is that things aren’t going to go always as planned.
As Seth Godin explains in his excellent book, The Dip, even though hard times, or Dips, as he calls them, are virtually unavoidable, there is often light at the end of the tunnel and those that show determination are rewarded when hard times are over and things take a turn for the better.
As Godin points out, hard times or Dips are a natural progression for any endeavor and by being prepared for it, you’ll have better chances to succeed.
“To withstand the Dip, you need to develop grit and patience”
Seth Godin
Success comes from embracing hard times and pushing yourself to the limits. Being aware that hard times can happen at any time, can help us be better prepared.
That does not mean that you have to live in fear. Live out your life to its fullest potential. These are the best times to be alive with the most opportunities and all the information out there.
Below you can find some powerful quotes for getting through hard times. I hope you enjoy them and feel free to share them with your family and friends!
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Getting Through Hard Times Quotes
“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
― Shaun Hick
“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo
“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi
“Accept hardship as a necessary discipline.”
Getting Through Hard Times Quotes
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”
― Karen Marie Moning
“Affliction is a good man’s shining time.”
― Edward Young
“Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.”
― Steve Goodier
“Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.”
― Jennifer DeLucy
“These are hard and uncertain times we’re living in,” he said. “You never know what will still be here tomorrow. That’s why we must take joy every day in what we do have, so it’s something we can carry in our memories when things change.”
― Jaye L. Knight
“There is always light in the midst of darkness, even if it is only a pinpoint in the distance.”
― Millie Florence
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“It was the hardest time of my life, but the best part of my journey.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
“A deep rooted strength is the result of a difficult journey.”
― Karen Gibbs
“Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.”
Getting Through Hard Times Quotes
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“Sometimes blessings come in ugly wrapping paper.”
― Richie Norton
“About hard times: There is something about hard times that brings a choice: either resiliency and we grow and strengthen from it, or we give up and fold. Collapse can be a protective choice, when one needs time to heal and regain resources before resiliency can return. . . . And our voices get clarified by the scarring.
― Jill Hackett
“I gulp Pain like a Sour taste of Red Wine!”
― Somya Kedia
“In tough times will you whine or shine?”
― Daren Martin
“Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water: they don’t mix.
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
“Remember an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards; so when you feel like life is dragging you down with difficulties, it simply means that it’s going to launch you to something great. So just focus and keep aiming”
― Megan Street
“When life hits hard, you have to patiently endure. Endurance builds capacity; with patience, character is developed. You can make a come back with good character.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu
“It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.”
― Saim. A. Cheeda
“When going through or coming out of a rough patch in life, it’s important not to focus on those who did not show up for you. Be appreciative of those who rolled up their sleeves and got dirty with you.”
― Sanjo Jendayi
“All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet.”
― Marjory Sheba
“Hard times, when held with open hands and a tender heart, can prepare us for the future.”
― Cindee Snider
“If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“When hardships keep coming back, do not take it personally. It’s just life.”
― Naide P. Obiang
“If they stay away during your hard times, they should also stay away during your great times.”
― Gift Gugu Mona
“Hard times are like thunder. They make a lot of noise but do little harm. Don’t fear hard times.”
― Debasish Mridha
“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.”
― Graham Greene
“Life keeps throwing me stones.
And I keep finding the diamonds…”
― Ana Claudia Antunes
“Even in hard times there’s a possibility to have fun.”
― Eyden I.
“Be thankful to those painful moments of your life, because that has what shaped you to become who you are now.”
― Pradeepa Pandiyan
“It’s true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it is also true that no one ever said you had to go through it alone.”
― Jellis Vaes
“It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.”
― Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
“Hard times only call for you to get tougher and push harder, but definitely not to get discouraged and give up on yourself. Life is about growing, and without going through some challenges, struggles and obstacles, you would never know how strong you truly are.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
“Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is “bad”, then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.”
― Miya Yamanouchi
“See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.”
― Ogwo David Emenike
“Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way.”
― Robert Tew
Getting Through Hard Times Quotes
“No matter how hard things get, you owe it to yourself to always find a way to persist and persevere until you are greatly rewarded for all your pain and sufferings.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
“We don’t get to pick the age we will live in, and we don’t get to choose all the struggles we will face. Faithfulness is ours to choose; the shape of faithfulness is God to determine.”
― Kevin DeYoung
“I’ll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you’ll find your way through.”
― Joan Bauer
“Never question the clouds, they’re only bringing the life-giving rain.”
― Amber Schamel
“Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.”
Getting Through Hard Times Quotes
― Brandi L. Bates
“You will face hard times in life. Sometimes they are supposed to come, sometimes not. Get through them no matter what, ’cause the good life is always on the other side.”
― F.C.
“Difficult times will come.” It’s a fact of life, isn’t it? There are good times and bad times in everybody’s life.”
― Raj Kosaraju
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
― Anne Bradstreet
“Don’t know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”
― Elizabeth Wein
“Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don’t even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.”
― Jayleigh Cape
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
― Seneca
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or her grievous errors.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster
“The worse the passage the more welcome the port. ”
― Thomas Fuller
Hard Time Quotes For Quarantine And Self-Isolation
“Use this time in quarantine to reinvigorate your relationships.
How you might ask?
It starts with forgiveness, rounded out by patience, and crystalized by love.”
― Charles F Glassman
“So some hope. I am going to be honest. It’s gonna get way worse. Brace yourself. BUT ALSO know there is a new tomorrow. Be grateful for everyday you are on this big blue marble because death is for a real long time. Life is brief. The world is better with you on it. Trust me when I say I understand how you feel! I understand depression. You know what helps. I say read a book or watch comedy, not mine necessarily. Just think about it. Who moves you? What comedy do you love? Not into comedy, listen to music, hell go to your porch and watch what’s going on. Wild life isn’t just lions and frogs but also squirrels and Birds. Like someone fun? Watch him or her or they or whomever. Look you’ll get through this! Stay in together!”
― Johnny Corn
“Sometimes you gotta put ya whole past and the people in it in quarantine to save yourself from being infected by their nocebos of who you are and who you’re becoming.”
― Scarlet Jei Saoirse
“Meditation puts distractions in quarantine.”
― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“Facing the pandemic, is not what happened matters, it is how we respond.”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo
“Now for some hope. It’s Easter Sunday. The day that is usually spent with family and friends. This year is more chill. That’s all. Just hanging out by staying in. ON the other side of this we will all talk about this time. It will be like where you were for the great quake of 1989 or 9-11 or where you were when JFK was shot. It’s going to be one of those kinds of moments. BUT the we made it through those times. We will make it through this. We are stronger together. Plus we will have a big Easter together next year! This year let’s all just chill in place.”
― Johnny Corn
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
― John Donne
“Today take time to think about all the countries and people who are affected by Corona Virus or Covid 19. Some of those people are our family, friends, partners , neighbors, relatives, colleagues and children. Lets show them love and support and be there for them. Every Human has a right to live. Happy Human rights day.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos
Hard Time Quotes For Relationships
“To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
― Helen Keller
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
― Epicurus
“Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten
“Sometimes we have toxic relationships with certain people. We know who they are, We know how they operate, and we still haven’t cut them off. It’s difficult for us to let people go, even if they hurt us because we have a greater fear of loneliness.”
― Alafia Stewart
“There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.”
― Wm. Paul Young
“An abuser isn’t abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That’s what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.”
― Miya Yamanouchi
Hard Time Quotes For Dealing With A Loss
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
― Haruki Murakami
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare
“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
― Jandy Nelson
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”
― Gail Caldwell
