Top 160 Life is Hard Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Life’s hard, then you die.”

— Woody Allen

102. “Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.”

— Alexandre Dumas

103. “Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

104. “Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

105. “Hard times always lead to something great.”

— Betsey Johnson

106. “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

— Katharine Hepburn

107. “If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.”

— Frank Lane

108. “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

109. “I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.”

— Dwayne Johnson

110. “For me giving up is way harder than trying.”

— Kanye West

111. “The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”

— Napoleon Hill

112. “In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.”

— Howard Schultz

113. “Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury

114. “Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”

— Bernie S. Siegel

115. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

— C. S. Lewis

116. “I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.”

— Roger Federer

117. “Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.”

— Cassandra Clare

118. “I’ve tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.”

— Chester Bennington

119. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker T. Washington

120. “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

121. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”

— Khalil Gibran

122. “Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.”

— Michael Keaton

123. “Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

— Cheryl Strayed

124. “There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

125. “Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

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

— William Ellery Channing

127. “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

128. “We can’t learn without pain.”

— Aristotle

129. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

— Orison Swett Marden

130. “The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.”

— Rick Warren

131. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”

— William Halsey

132. “We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.”

— J.K. Rowling

133. “Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

134. “There is no education like adversity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

135. “The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

136. “God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.”

— Edward Bouverie Pusey

137. “Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.”

— Dave Ramsey

138. “If you can’t learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we’ll always have problems.”

— Joyce Meyer

139. “The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

140. “The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

141. “It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

142. “Nothing is ever easy.”

— Terry Goodkind

143. “Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

144. “After all, a crisis doesn’t make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

145. “Life for me has not been a crystal stair.”

— Langston Hughes

146. “Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.”

— Demi Lovato

147. “Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?”

— Davy Jones

148. “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

149. “Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.”

— Bobby Jones

150. “The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.”

— Neal A. Maxwell