1. “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” ― Gail Sheehy
2. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” ― Oscar Wilde
3. “There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.” ― Laure Manaudou
4. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”– Mary Engelbreit
5. “If you embrace your flaws, nobody can use them against you.”– Cara Alwill Leyba
6. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas Edison
7. “Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” ― Kenneth Branagh
8. “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” ― Naval Ravikant
9. “Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.” ― Robert Schuller
10. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”– Duke Ellington
11. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”– Anonymous
12. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”– Confucius
13. “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A. A. Milne/Christopher Robin
14. “Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms.”― Lailah Gifty Akita
15. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”―H.G. Wells
16. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”– David Brinkley
17. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.” ― Unknown
18. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne
19. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ― Joshua J. Marine
20. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”– James Allen
21. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day-out.”– Robert Collier
22. “Light tomorrow with today.”– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
23. “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.” ― William J. Brennan
24. “Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence.” ― Sarah Dessen
25. “Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience.” ― Author Unknown
26. “Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James
27. “Hard times may have put you down sometimes but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be wise and strong.” ― Anurag Prakash Ray
28. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.”– Napoleon Hill
29. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ― Bob Marley
30. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ― Les Brown
31. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.” ― William W. Purkey
32. “Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.” ― Jewel
33. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling
34. “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
35. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” ― Coco Chanel
36. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ― Omar Kayyam
37. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
38. “Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.” ― Maxime Lagacé
39. “When you know better, you do better.” ― Maya Angelou
40. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert H. Schuller
41. “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
42. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou
43. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”– George Lorimer
44. “One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.”– Caroline Webb
45. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
46. “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”– Colette
47. “Choose to be optimistic; it feels better.” ― Dalai Lama
48. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”– Francis Chan
49. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” ― Zig Ziglar
50. “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” ― Gary Keller
51. “Hard times, when held with open hands and a tender heart, can prepare us for the future.” ― Cindee Snider Re
52. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” ― Vivian Greene
53. “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein
54. “Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.” ― Michelle Obama
55. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino
56. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”– William Samuel Johnson
57. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” ― Seneca The Younger
58. “A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything.”– Kelly Williams Brown
59. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”– Robert Frost
60. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ― Alice Walker
61. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” ― Madeleine Albright
62. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”– Anonymous
63. “We grow great by dreams.” ― Woodrow Wilson
64. “Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” — Joel Osteen
65. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln
66. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” ― Taylor Swift
67. “You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.” ― Mae West
68. “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
69. “No one is perfect — that’s why pencils have erasers.” ― Anonymous
70. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill
71. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day-out.”– Robert Collier
72. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”– Jacques Prevert
73. “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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