Top 79 Quotes About Life Difficult Times
#2. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.
Teresa St. Frances
#3. One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
Nadia Comaneci
#5. Difficult times have helped me to 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.
Karen Blixen
#6. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.
Vance C. Kessler
#7. After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
Brittany Murphy
#8. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.
Jon Gordon
#9. Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got tapeworm" Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.
Harper Lee
#10. Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny.
Ronnie Apteker
#11. You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.
Joel Kinnaman
#12. Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character.
Chuck Black
#13. Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.
Sandeep Sharma
#14. Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Paulo Coelho
#15. During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.
Halle Berry
#16. You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.
Anousheh Ansari
#17. Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
Gary Bauer
#18. You have to be willing to endure the discomfort, the doubts and unknowing, you somehow find the courage to walk through your doubts and the difficult times because you are living the life you are meant to live.
Mary Pope Osborne
#19. Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.
Joel Osteen
#20. I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
Marat Safin
#21. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Elizabeth Edwards
#23. I've got a history in my life of difficult times.
James Nesbitt
#27. Sometimes we have to go through difficult times in life," he said. "But they're just a test, and if we stay strong, we're eventually rewarded.
Chevy Stevens
#28. Difficult times are ways to know and understand yourself and others in a better way.
(From 'Voyage to Happiness')
Sanchita Pandey
#29. If you fall into troubles, it is not that you did something wrong. It is because the universe wants to prepare you for a better life by making you strong.
Debasish Mridha
#30. If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
John F. Kennedy
#31. Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara De Angelis
#32. In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.
John Lanchester
#33. I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.
Catherine Deneuve
#34. If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
Kerry Stokes
#36. Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."
Richard Bach
#37. All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#39. Difficult times give an opportunity to understand, who is your good friend and who is just a friend.
Sukant Ratnakar
#40. This I know of life's difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.
Andre Dubus III
#41. When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials.
John Bruna
#42. Difficult times never last.
Patient to preserve is a peaceful altitude for surviving the stormy waters.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.
David Rees
#44. It's a difficult truth to face that some people choose to define themselves by the pain they feel or the wrongs they've suffered. They're not going through hard times so much as making all times hard.
Dani Harper
#45. These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.
Elizabeth Goudge
#46. The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.
Tony Robbins
#47. I do find life difficult at times ... and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy ... I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?
Alison Uttley
#48. Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
Lev Landau
#49. Sometimes life becomes a bit difficult. There are hard times and even some little things can mess up your life. Make the best out of these moments. Don't forget to smile. You can cry as loud as you want, but smile. Just stand up and go on. You can do everything you want.
Miyavi
#50. Laurelyn can be difficult to read at times, but she's hurting and I want to give her the support she deserves. She damn sure doesn't get it from anyone else in her life.
Georgia Cates
#52. Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
Elizabeth Lesser
#53. Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.
Jack Canfield
#54. Every life has peaks and shadows and times when it seems that the birds don't sing and bells don't ring. Yet in spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser, and happier as a result.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#55. They that know their God shall not be disappointed. They will stand the test of time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#56. How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser
#57. The difficulties of life are part of life's journey on earth. Grace is needed for endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls
#60. Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#61. Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
William L. Shirer
#62. Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
Vincent Van Gogh
#63. We will not be disgraced in trouble times. The Lord will deliver us.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.
Elizabeth Lesser
#65. There are many men who deserve to die, but they live. I can't see the end, the purpose. Even wise men can't. We can put a barrier, a wall, around ourselves, but try as we might, we can't keep the world out.
Cate Campbell Beatty
#67. Life can be so difficult at times, but fighting through the pain is so worth it. It's better to feel every kind of emotion than not feel at all.
Demi Lovato
#68. It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life's purpose.
Molly Friedenfeld
#69. I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
Richard Paul Evans
#70. Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
Brittany Murphy
#71. Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. During life's difficult patches, camaraderie blunts our misery; during the good times, it boosts our happiness.
Eric Weiner
#73. Never abandon your dreams due to encounter with a hurdle. Seek grace to overcome the hurdle.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion and respect for the other players. I understand that everyone goes through difficult times, either mentally or physically, to cope with their life, to live the sport.
Novak Djokovic
#76. Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
Jack Gantos
#78. Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you'll probably smile and say, I lived a very fun life
Minzy
#79. You are going through difficult moments of life. Times when you do not understand the ways of our world or the ways of our people. Hold on to yourself in these moments. These times will change. Calm will return to your being. Hold on to yourself. Please.
Avijeet Das
