Encouraging Quotes for Hard Times When You′re Struggling to Stay Strong
Encouraging Quotes for Hard Times from My Mom and Dad
There are moments that test every ounce of your strength.
You look up and ask, “Why me?” — and no answer comes.
But the silence isn’t empty.
Sometimes the lesson is still forming,
and what feels like punishment is actually preparation.
We’re all connected, all learning, all growing through what we’re given.
You don’t have to understand it right now.
Just take it one sunrise at a time.
Healing happens quietly, in the background, while you breathe and continue.
And when you look back one day,
you’ll realize that the very weight that tried to break you
built muscles you didn’t know you had.
You will get through this.
And when you do — you’ll be stronger than you ever imagined.
When You Feel Like Giving Up
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
Encouraging Quotes for Hard Times: This Life Is Yours
This is your life — and that’s your greatest power.
You get to choose how to live it,
what to chase,
what to love,
what to let go.
No one else can walk this path for you.
No one else gets to decide what joy looks like for you.
Take that power and build a life that feels like home.
Make it rich with love, curiosity, and peace.
You deserve that.
Do your best, and when you rest, remind yourself:
Trying counts. Trying always counts.
Take chances. Fall. Learn. Rise again.
It’s not about perfection — it’s about courage.
Love yourself enough to keep going.
On Hope and Healing
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
“This too shall pass.” – Persian Proverb
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Every storm runs out of rain.” – Maya Angelou
“Hope costs nothing.” – Colette
On Strength and Courage
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“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 are stronger than you think.” – Unknown
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards
“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is just show up.” – Brené Brown
Encouraging Quotes for Hard Times: Always Choose Hope
Never let go of hope — it’s the quiet engine that keeps your heart moving forward.
Hope is what gets you out of bed on days when the world feels heavy.
It reminds you that trying still matters.
Don’t measure your life by the things you own
but by how deeply you feel, love, and heal.
Bad moments don’t define you.
They pass — they always do
Ask for help when you need it.
Run toward your dreams, not away from them.
Even when things fall apart, you are still growing.
And please, don’t forget to laugh.
Let tears fall when they need to —
because both laughter and tears are proof that you’re alive,
and living fully is what this is all about.
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On Faith and Trusting the Process
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
“When nothing is certain, anything is possible.” – Mandy Hale
“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming.” – Unknown
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” – St. Francis of Assisi
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Let go and let life happen.” – Unknown
“Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” – Dante Alighieri
“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind.” – Buddha
“Faith is not the absence of doubt; it’s the means to overcome it.” – Steven Furtick
On Self-Worth
“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou
“Don’t forget to love yourself.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“You deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else.” – Unknown
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt
On Change and Growth
“Change is never easy, but always possible.” – Barack Obama
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” – Unknown
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – N.R. Narayana Murthy
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it.” – Alan Watts
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” – Bob Goff
“Life is about evolving. Don’t stay in a situation that no longer fits your future.” – Unknown
“Keep going. Growth doesn’t happen in comfort.” – Unknown
Encouraging Quotes for Hard Times: Hold On Until You Find Your Smile Again
When life feels like a climb that never ends,
take one small step. Just one.
When your heart feels too heavy to carry,
find the courage to face a single new day.
If you feel lost, let faith lead you.
When it’s hard to believe things will ever change,
look inward — that spark you’ve been searching for is still there.
No storm lasts forever.
Rain eventually runs dry.
And the light that returns after dark?
It’s always worth the wait.
On Kindness and Compassion
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“If you can’t find kindness, be it.” – Unknown
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” – John Bunyan
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
“Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” – Karen Salmansohn
“Sometimes you just need someone to be there. Not to fix anything, but to let you know you’re not alone.” – Unknown
“Kindness begins with understanding that we all struggle.” – Charles Glassman
On Persistence and Grit
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliot
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Little by little, one travels far.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” – Lalah Delia
“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Unknown
“Slow progress is still progress.” – Unknown
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“When everything feels like an uphill battle, just think of the view from the top.” – Unknown
On Gratitude and Perspective
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Melody Beattie
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” – Hyman Schachtel
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“Peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chödrön
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
“The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most of every day.” – Unknown
On Never Giving Up
“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Unknown
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long.” – Unknown
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
“The comeback is always stronger than the setback.” – Unknown
“You can do it.” – Barbara Cage
Encouraging Quotes for Hard Times: You’ve Got This
Be gentle with yourself.
You’re doing the best you can with what you have.
Focus on this moment — not yesterday, not tomorrow — just now.
You have everything you need to handle this moment.
Let go of what you can’t control.
Don’t give your energy to negative thoughts.
Look for small joys, tiny wins, quiet blessings.
You are capable of more than you realize.
You hold the power to change your life — no one else does.
And when you doubt it most, remind yourself:
You’ve already made it through things you once thought you couldn’t.
You can do this too.
I know life doesn’t always make sense while you’re in the middle of it.
Some days it feels like everything you’ve built is slipping through your fingers, and the light at the end of the tunnel is nowhere in sight.
I’ve been there too.
That’s why I gathered these words — not as empty comfort, but as reminders that strength, hope, and healing are still within reach.
I hope you see yourself in these quotes, and that they give you something to hold onto when it feels like you have nothing left.
More than anything, I hope these words remind you that you are neither alone, broken, nor done.
You still have chapters to write and moments worth waiting for.
Even when the world feels heavy, I hope you’ll keep believing in the quiet power inside you — the one that’s carried you this far.
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