Uplifting Quotes
We all need a little motivation at some point in our lives. If you are going through a rough phase in life, be it disappointments, business setbacks, betrayals and so on. Our list of uplifting quotes will remind you that life isn’t always bad.
Read through our collection of uplifting quotes and sayings to find the courage to stay strong and push through difficult times.
60 Uplifting Quotes For Hard Times
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience.” – Author Unknown
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.”– Marie Con Ebner-Eschenbach
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Leroy Satchel Paige
“People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Simon Sinek
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing ’til it gets there.” – Josh Billings
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” – Elie Weisel
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
“Your dreams don’t have to be lofty; they just have to be lived.”– Kelly Bouchard
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”– Japanese Proverb
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”– Buckminster Fuller
“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A. A. Milne/Christopher Robin
“No one is perfect — that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Anonymous
“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.” – J. K. Rowling
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”– David Brinkley
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”– Jacques Prevert
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”– Confucius
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”– James Allen
“Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”– Anonymous
Life is not what happened back there or what might happen up ahead. Life is like the rhythm of the heart — every breath, every blink of the eye. It is beat by beat, moment by moment. This…is all there is. This…is all we need.” – Andy Puddycombe
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Kayyam
“Live each day like it’s your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night.”– Jason Love
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Groucho Marx
“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown
“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.” – Marie Osmond
“Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris
“Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.”– Unknown
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”– Hans Christian Andersen
“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Irish Proverb
“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss
“If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” – Taylor Swift
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss
“A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything.”– Kelly Williams Brown
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Nelson Mandela
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”– Robert Collier
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”– George Lorimer
“Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
“Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller
“Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
“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
“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
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”– Julia Cameron
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller
“One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.”– Caroline Webb
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” – Epicetus
“To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.”– Barbara DeAngelis
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence.” – Sarah Dessen
“If it’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”– Sara Evans
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”– Margaret Thatcher
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller
“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” – Kenneth Branagh
“Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.” – Maxime Lagacé