Positive Quotes for When Life Gets Hard By Greg Brooks Digital

1. Dale Carnegie is Keepin’ On Keepin’ On

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on.” – Dale Carnegie

People who have faced insurmountable odds have gone on to accomplish a great deal. You can do so in your own life. If you know that you’re doing something important, keep moving forward and don’t stop, you might be just so close to success. Do not let the chaos of life keep you from your importance.

2. Confucius Says Get Up

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

The point of life is to never fall down or make mistakes, but instead, like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, you have turned into something stronger and better. You might be down right now, but don’t stay there forever. Rise again. It might take a while to muster the strength, but rise again.

3. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Facing Challenges

“The ultimate measure of a man is where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is possible to know the true mettle of a person when they are faced with trials and most especially controversy. A great measure includes someone being willing to see the validity in opposing arguments, as well as someone who is dedicated, fair, and courageous in hard times.

4. Robert H. Schuller Knows You’re Tough

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

Life is an ad and flow of experiences. Tough times might stick around for awhile, but they don’t last forever. Tough people can last through anything. And it is most often going through heartbreaking tough times that create tough people. You can do this.

5. Franklin D. Roosevelt Wants You to Hang On

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some days it’s like that, isn’t it? You have no idea how you are still managing, but somehow you do. Do you feel like you’re hanging by your fingernails, by a thread, by the skin of your teeth, etc.? It’s usually right at your most absolute, most desperate, weakest moment that things suddenly change. Hang on.

6. William J. Brennan, Jr. Encourages You to Rise Up

“We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.” – William J. Brennan, Jr.

Wishing for problems to go away does absolutely nothing but create more problems. Taking the step to meet your challenges is often the hardest step, but resolution is on it’s way because you have faced your problems. Step up and get through the tough times in life.

7. Thomas Edison Says You’re So Close!

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

You might have seen the picture floating on the Internet’s of the minor that gives up digging for gold only a few feet away from it. Usually this is accompanied by the picture of a minor that keeps going and strikes gold. Which minor are you?

8. H.G. Wells Tells You to Get Back Up

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells

You might have fallen down a lot yesterday, but with each sunrise a new day dawns for you to try again. Keep getting up and keep facing each day with the heart of a champion. Battered and bruised you get up and move forward; one foot in front of the other is to be celebrated.

9. Les Brown on Taking Responsibility

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

Blaming other people for the circumstances in your life does absolutely nothing to empower you. If you don’t like what is happening in your life, then you are the only one required to take steps to change it; no one else will do that for you.

10. Joshua J. Marine Knows the Depth of Challenges

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

You might never equate your challenges as being something interesting, and for someone to say that they are that can almost be an insult depending on what you are dealing with. However, overcoming our challenges does truly make life more meaningful. We become textured and resilient; we have great perspective about what’s truly important in life.

11. Carl Bard on Starting Now

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

You only have this moment to make a new choice. No matter if you screamed at your children 5 minutes ago, right now you can choose to take a deep breath instead. No matter if you made a mistake at work, you can choose now to fix it and create a new ending.

12. Christopher Reeve Has Hope At His Side

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

Having hope seems somewhat underrated. How could hope possibly change the atrocities in the world? To be honest, it doesn’t. What hope does is change the individual who has it and and then that person changes the world. Hope sends out a vibration of openness and optimism that helps bring solutions.

13. Mary Anne Radmacher Says Courage is Quiet

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Having courage every day to get up and try to make ends meet, live a purposeful life, and be healthy can be overwhelming depending on the cards that we have been dealt. When you feel defeated at the end of the day, find that courageous voice within you, and get ready to tackle tomorrow.

14. William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Says Challenges Make Us Great

“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” – William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

Great people are created by their great challenges. Ordinary people with extraordinary life circumstances have found a way to surmount the odds and live lives of purpose, meaning, and compassion. Get through your challenges and become an even greater version of yourself because of them.

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