1. No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.-Randy Pausch
2. You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.-Dean Young
3. Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.-Thisuri Wanniarachchi
4. Faith is why I’m here today and faith is why I made it through.-Jonathan Anthony Burkett
5. You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.-Shaun Hick
6. Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.-Aidan Quinn
7. If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.-Louis D. Brandeis
8. My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.-Anne F. Beiler
9. It always seems impossible until it’s done.-Nelson Mandela
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10. Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.-Carolina Herrera
11. Life is hard. After all, it kills you.-Katharine Hepburn
12. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
13. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.-Kenji Miyazawa
14. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.-Henry Ford
15. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.-Chinese Proverb
16. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.-Robert Schuller
17. Pain is your friend; it is your alie. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you’re not dead yet!-G.I. Jane
18. Tough times never last, but tough people do.-Robert H Schuller
19. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.-Duke Ellington
20. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.-Jewish Proverb
21. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.-Albert Schweitzer
22. Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.-Terri Guillemets
23. Nothing good comes cheaply so we shouldn’t be surprised when we meet the hard while going for the best. Hard times are not quit times.-Terry Mark
24. The last battle always seems the toughest and to give up will always bring the worst defeat.-Terry Mark
25. Don’t pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.-Bruce Lee
26. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.-David Russell
27. If you’re already in a hole, it is no use to continue digging.-Roy W. Walters
28. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.-Thomas Edison
29. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.-Bertrand Russell