Uplifting Sayings and quotes.
No matter how much personal growth work you’ve done, we all need a little boost sometimes.
For me, nothing hits like a good quote. It’s wild how just a few words can shift your mindset and lift your spirits.
That’s why I’m a big believer in feeding our minds daily with positive reminders—it strengthens our resilience and keeps us going.
So, let these words be a little light on your path. Life can be tough, but so are you.
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These quotes are here to remind you that tough times don’t last forever—they’re just part of the journey.
Whatever’s weighing on you today is just a passing moment—it won’t last forever. You’re stronger than your fears, and you have more power than you realize. So take a deep breath and trust that better days are coming.
Here’s a collection of quotes (with images) to remind you of resilience, strength, confidence, courage, patience, and compassion.
Let these words be a daily nudge to shift your mindset from “I can’t” to “I will.”
Uplifting Sayings and quotes.
You’re allowed to scream. You’re allowed to cry. But don’t give up.
“Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.”– Jake Gyllenhaal
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is true strength.”– Arnold Schwarzenegger”
“]Keep going! Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end. – Roy T. Bennett
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.“–Theodore Roosevelt
“Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.”– Nathan Chen
That’s what is incredible about human beings, it is the choice to keep going. – Jack Antonoff
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”– Jack Ma
“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”– T. F. Hodge
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson
Uplifting Sayings and quotes.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”– Elon Musk Share on X“Just remember: To be great you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong”– Rumah Sehat
“The Best Way Out Is Always Through.” – Robert Frost
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to learn.” – Pema Chödrön
You don’t find will power, you create it.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”– Dale Carnegie
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Rikki Rogers
“Circumstances don’t defeat you — you defeat yourself when you give up.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary
Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. People can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.
Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations. – Zig Ziglar
“Never, never, never give up.”– Winston Churchill
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“Life is, at times, tough. and all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it.” – Sanhita Baruah
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.”
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”– Earl Nightingale
“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish.” – Steve Jobs
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”– Dale Carnegie
Let your faith be bigger than your fear.
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”– Henry Ford
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.” – Zig Ziglar
“The Impossible is often the untried.”– Jim Goodwin
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Eric Thomas
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”– Marilyn Vos Savant
“A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” – B. F. Skinner
Focus on your goal. Don’t look in any direction but ahead.
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve
True Strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”– Unknown
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”– Henry Ford Share on X“Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.“
“I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” – Marie Curie
“Do It first and feel about it afterwards.” –Ayn Rand [Uplifting Sayings and quotes.]
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. – H.G. Wells
“First, Say to Yourself What you would Be; Then Do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“We cannot ever stop dreaming just as we cannot ever stop breathing.”– Avijeet Das ”
“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
“The Harder you Fall, The Higher you Bounce.” – Douglas Horton
“Things happen to you to make you realize your true potential, strength, will power, and heart. You’ve got to have faith.”– Dr. Byron Hayes
It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. – Jillian Michaels
Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. – Bob Riley
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
Someday you will look back, and know exactly why it had to happen.
You have to get up every morning and tell yourself ‘I can do this’.
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve”. – John Maxwell
Don’t Count The Days, Make The Days Count. – Muhammad Ali [Uplifting Sayings and quotes.]
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
Uplifting sayings and quotes. 5 📚 Books on resilience to consider getting your hands on:
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Lauren Hillenbrand (Amazon)
- Resilience: Navigating Life, Loss, and the Road to Success by Lisa Lisson (Amazon)
- The Micro Resilience Book – Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines (Amazon)
- The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to finding your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles – Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte, PhD (Amazon)
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön [Read Summary—(Amazon)
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QUOTES ON ‘PATIENCE’ THROUGH HARD TIMES
Be patient with yourself.
Growth takes time, and real change doesn’t happen overnight.
Whatever your reason for wanting to improve, give yourself the grace, and patience to figure things out along the way.
The key isn’t to rush in, but to trust the process—even when it feels slow.
Patience means being kind to yourself, listening, and embracing the journey. Patience is the ability to fully trust and embrace the process, even when the outcome isn’t immediate.
So keep going. You’re getting there.
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The principal part of faith is patience. – George MacDonald
Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, at the same time remain patient and forbearing. – Franz Kafka
Sometimes things don’t make sense at first. That’s when you’ve got to be patient, stick with it, and see where it takes you. – Mary Pierce
“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” – Chinese Proverb
Patience is the best medicine. – John Florio
“In The Midst Of Movement And Chaos, Keep Stillness Inside of You.” – Deepak Chopra
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson. – Elon Musk
“ Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Aristotle.
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. – David Allen
“ God has perfect timing; never early, never late.
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. – David Allen Share on XEverything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
Patience is the art of hoping. – Luc de Clapiers
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt
Trust the process. Your time is coming.
Everything will work out in the end. You don’t need to figure out how—just trust that it will.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” Anonymous.
Quotes To Inspire Self-Compassion During Hard Times
Self-compassion is about treating yourself with the same kindness you’d offer a good friend. Beating yourself up when things don’t go as planned won’t help. It only makes things harder. Instead of thinking “I’m a bad person” when you mess up, try shifting it to “I made a mistake, but that doesn’t define me.”
Shad Helmstetter, in What to Say When You Talk to Yourself, explains that your brain believes whatever you tell it most often. If you constantly feed it negativity, it’ll accept that as truth, even when it’s not.
So next time you catch yourself in a spiral of self-criticism, pause and ask yourself: Is this thought actually helping me?
Probably not.
The best way to break the cycle of negative self-talk is to stop programming it into your mind in the first place. Speak to yourself with kindness. [Uplifting Sayings and quotes. ]
Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion. ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles. ~ Charlie Chaplin
It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. ~ Lama Yeshe
Even an animal will gradually trust you if you show real affection. But if you’re always angry or harsh, how can you expect to build any kind of friendship?~ Dalai Lama
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ~ Anne Wilson Schaef
Compassionate towards yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world ~ Lao Tzu
Uplifting Sayings and quotes. 3 Books on compassion:
- Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff (Amazon) [Paperback—Kindle—audible]
- The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions by Christopher K. Germer, Sharon Salzberg (Amazon) [Paperback—Kindle—audible]
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown (Amazon) [Read Summary—Paperback—Kindle—audible]
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result, you feel peaceful and content. ~ Dalai Lama
Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn’t wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you. ~ Melody Beattie
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax. ~ Mark Black
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. ~ Pema Chodron
“Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming”. ~ Robert Tew
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