These hard life quotes will inspire you. Hard life, that lives or can survive in harsh conditions or circumstances; (now usually) that lives recklessly or without moderation.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging hard life quotes, hard life sayings, and hard life proverbs.
Best Hard Life Quotes
- “Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Anybody who’s ever gone through a hard time – any outsider’s perception, no matter how much information they’re given, they have no idea what the person’s life is like.” ~ Amy Grant , Through hard life quotes
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost
- “Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” ~ David Gerrold
- “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
- “Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?” ~ Paul Simon
- “I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don’t believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It’s not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.” ~ Nigel Mansell
- “Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!” ~ Sandy Duncan
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.” ~ Howard Thurman
- “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” ~ Lucille Ball
- “Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ~ James M. Barrie
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“It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.” ~ Jean Ingelow
- “I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don’t work at all for a couple of months.” ~ Gregory Hines
- “Try hard to find out what you’re good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.” ~ Joshua Lederberg
- “I’ve watched those shows my whole life – being on one is like a dream. It’s hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I’ve known my whole life.” ~ Edie Falco
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“My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.” ~ George Foreman
- “When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “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
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
- “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” ~ Katharine Hepburn
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.” ~ Jessica Cutler
- “I’ve had hard coaches all my life.” ~ Chris Webber
- “Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.” ~ Aidan Quinn
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“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Focus and simplicity…once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
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“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” ~ Duke Ellington
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
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“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert Kennedy
- “The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “It’s so hard to keep everything balanced in life.” ~ Rosanna Arquette
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“When the show’s not around any more, it’s going to be hard not to have her in my life.” ~ Gillian Anderson
- “When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Life is hard? True – but let’s love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.” ~ Edward Abbey
- “People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life – to learn something is a joy to me.” ~ August Strindberg
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“A hard life improves the vision.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “A pious woman’s neighbor, a philanthropist’s child, a liberal’s servant–these three have a hard life.” ~ Franz Grillparzer
- “Hate no one, no matter how much they’ve wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you’ve been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
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“This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it’s very hard to bear” ~ Gerry Mulligan
- “I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.” ~ Oksana Baiul
- “Sometimes a hard day’s work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.” ~ Chris LeDoux
- “My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.” ~ John H. Johnson
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“I swing hard all the time. That’s what I’ve done my whole life-hit.” ~ David Ortiz
- “The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.” ~ Donna Tartt
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“If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
- “It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.” ~ Daniel Johns
- “It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.” ~ Martin Lel
