20 Quotes To Get Through Tough Times

Life throws all kinds of curveballs even to the good people.  Focusing on the positive can be difficult when you find yourself in tough times, but sometimes, the best lessons are learned during the rough patches in life.  The optimal course of action is to continue being the best version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.  You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option.  Regardless of your situation, the sun rises the next day and you have to lace up your shoes each day.  Here are twenty reminders that the toughest of obstacles can be overcome.

1. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

-Robert H Schuller

2. The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.

-Unknown

3. Never let your head hang down.  Never give up and sit down and grieve.  Find another way.  And don't when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

-LeRoy Satchel Paige

4. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

-Lou Holtz

5. If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

-Unknown

6. Adversity is a fact of life.  It can't be controlled.  What we can control is how we react to it.

-Unknown

7. 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

8. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

-Walt Disney

9. Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down.  It's staying down that's wrong.

-Muhammad Ali

10. Life is riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

-Albert Einstein

11. It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog!  The person who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.

-African Proverb

12. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

-Louisa May Alcott

13. Whenever there is darkness, there is an extraordinary opportunity for light to burn brighter.

-Bono

14. This too shall pass.

-Unknown

15. You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

-J. Askenberg

16. Fall seven times, stand up eight.

-Japanese Proverb

17. I like living.  I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing.

-Agatha Christie

18. Difficult times have helped me understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

-Isak Dinesen

19. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships were built for

-Unknown

20. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can we be perfected without adversity.

-Unknown