20 inspirational quotes to help you get through tough times

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Here are 20 inspirational quotes to encourage you and help you get through tough times.

20 Inspiration Quotes

1.“We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

2. “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” – Bono

3. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

4. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

5. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

6. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

7. “Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.” – Helen Keller

8. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

9. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

11. “If I persist long enough I will win.” – Og Mandino

12. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown

13. In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

14. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison

15. “Stop looking at the past and all the things you can’t change. They’re done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go.” –  Lacey Weatherford

16. “Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

17. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

18. “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

19. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt 

20. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.” – Mark Twain

21. “Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.” – George Allen

22. “Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.” – Robert Brault

23. “Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

24. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

25. “Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill

16. “We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

27. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison

28. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

29. “The brick walls are there for a reason.  The brick walls are not there to keep us out.  The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.  Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.  They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch

30. “The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

31. “for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.” – Proverbs 24:16

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