Life Being Hard Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old life being hard quotes, life being hard sayings, and life being hard proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ' Sydney J. Harris
Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse. Cat Power
And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance. Gabrielle Williams
Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse. Pauley Perrette
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
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere
But that's the challenge-to change the system more than it changes you. Michael Pollan
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. Bette Davis
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't. Thomas Edison
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J.K. Rowling
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. C. JoyBell C.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Robert Fulghum
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
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden
Life is very simple: it merely consists in learning how to accept the impossible, how to do without the indispensable, how to endure the insupportable. Kathleen Norris
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came. Peter De Vries
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. Jules Renard
Life is a hospital in which every patient wants to change his bed for another's. Baudelaire
It is impossible to cheat life; there are no answers to the problems of life in the back of the book. Kierkegaard
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. Samuel Butler
Many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life, could make it seem longer if they did a little more work. Don Marquis
Life seems to be divided into two periods: in the first we indulge, in the second we preach. Will Durant
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. William Osler
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another: it's one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay