9 Strength Quotes That Help You Stay Positive During Hard Times
The staying positive during the hard times is not the denying of the hard or the forced performing of the cheerful from the position that is most specifically not feeling the cheerful. It is the specific, practiced, honest orientation toward what is still possible, what is still genuinely present, and what is still most specifically worth the continuing toward from the hard position that the staying positive most directly enables from the honest acknowledgment of the hard rather than the bypassing of it. The strength that sustains the positive orientation through the hard times is the strength most specifically built from the honest engagement with the hard rather than the strength most specifically performed from the avoidance of it.
These 9 strength quotes are chosen for the specific quality of the hard-times-staying-positive illumination they most directly provide at the moment when the hard is most specifically present and the positive orientation is most specifically requiring the right words from the right source to most specifically sustain it. Read them from inside the hard time. The ones that most specifically land are the ones most directly needed.
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Get the Free Self-Care Starter Kit1. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. — Victor Hugo
“The staying positive during the hard times is the specific, practiced, honest orientation toward what is still possible, what is still genuinely present, and what is still most specifically worth the continuing toward from the hard position that the staying positive most directly enables from the honest acknowledgment of the hard rather than the bypassing of it.”
This strength quote from Victor Hugo carries the specific, time-oriented, endurance-sustaining truth about the hard time that the staying positive most essentially requires the genuine believing of: the darkest night will end. The night is specific. The darkest is honest. The will end is the most important truth the strength quote most specifically provides from the inside of the darkest that was most specifically preventing the will-end from being most clearly visible. The sun will rise. Not a question. Not a hope. The most specifically available future certainty that the staying positive during the hard times is most directly sustained by from the honest acknowledgment of the darkest that the will-end most directly follows. The darkest night will end. Hold this.
2. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
This strength quote from Albert Einstein carries the specific, reorienting, opportunity-pointing truth about the difficulty that the staying positive during the hard times most directly grows from the reorientation: the difficulty is not only the obstacle or the trial or the experience-to-be-survived. It most specifically contains the opportunity that the middle of the difficulty most directly and most specifically locates. The staying positive during the hard times is most directly enabled by the reorientation from the difficulty-as-only-obstacle to the difficulty-as-containing-the-opportunity that the Einstein quote most directly provides from the inside of the difficulty most specifically requiring the reorientation toward the opportunity it most specifically contains from the middle most directly revealing it.
3. Every moment is a fresh beginning. — T.S. Eliot
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. The difficulty is not only the obstacle or the trial or the experience to be survived. It most specifically contains the opportunity the middle of the difficulty most directly and most specifically locates. The staying positive is most directly enabled by the reorientation from the difficulty-as-only-obstacle to the difficulty-as-containing-the-opportunity.”
This strength quote from T.S. Eliot carries the specific, present-moment-liberating truth about the relationship between the every-moment and the fresh-beginning that the staying positive during the hard times most essentially requires for the specific moment most immediately available from the hard-time position: the every moment is a fresh beginning from which the hard time is not the permanent sentence it most specifically feels like from the inside of the hardest moment. Every moment. Not the special moment or the optimal moment or the earned-the-fresh-beginning moment. Every moment is the fresh beginning. The staying positive during the hard times is most specifically enabled by the every-moment fresh beginning that the T.S. Eliot quote most directly and most specifically provides from the hard-time position most immediately available to it.
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Visit Premier Print Works4. Tough times never last, but tough people do. — Robert H. Schuller
This strength quote from Robert H. Schuller carries the specific, endurance-honoring truth about the relationship between the tough times and the tough people that the staying positive most directly grows from the honest knowing of: the tough times have the specific, structural, most importantly honest feature of the not-lasting. They do not last. The tough people are the people who most specifically do. The staying positive during the hard times is most directly sustained by the knowing that the hard time is the not-lasting kind and the tough-person endurance is the lasting kind. Be the tough person. The tough times do not last. The tough person does. The staying positive during the hard times is the specific practice of the tough person who most specifically lasts through the tough times that most specifically do not last.
5. Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton
This strength quote from Dolly Parton carries the specific, growth-recognizing truth about the relationship between the storm of the hard time and the deeper roots of the strength that the storm most directly and most specifically produces from the surviving: the storms make the trees take the deeper roots. The hard times make the person take the deeper roots of the inner strength, the resilience, the clarity of the values, and the depth of the character that the comfortable times most specifically and most consistently fail to require and therefore most specifically fail to produce from the conditions that most specifically require the deeper-rooting. The staying positive during the hard times is most directly sustained by the knowing that the storm is making the deeper roots that the comfortable alternative was most specifically not producing from the conditions most directly requiring the deeper-rooting the storm was most specifically making.
6. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou
This strength quote from Maya Angelou carries the specific, essential distinction between the encountering-the-defeats and the being-defeated that the staying positive during the hard times most essentially requires the maintaining of: the encounters with the defeats are the specific, inevitable, most honestly-acknowledged features of the genuinely lived life. The being-defeated is the specific, chosen, most specifically-available-to-the-choosing alternative to the not-being-defeated that the Angelou quote most directly and most specifically names as the must-not-be of the staying-positive position. You may encounter many defeats. You must not be defeated. The staying positive during the hard times is the specific, practiced, must-not-be-defeated orientation that acknowledges the many-defeats-encountered while most specifically choosing the not-being-defeated from the encountering-the-defeats that the Angelou quote most directly distinguishes as the two most specifically available options from the hard-time position.
7. Stars can’t shine without darkness. — Unknown
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. The encounters with the defeats are the specific, inevitable, honestly-acknowledged features of the genuinely lived life. The being-defeated is the specific, chosen alternative to the not-being-defeated the Angelou quote most directly names as the must-not-be of the staying-positive position that acknowledges the many-defeats-encountered.”
This strength quote carries the specific, darkness-honoring, shining-enabling truth about the relationship between the darkness of the hard time and the shining that the darkness most specifically and most essentially enables: the stars cannot shine without the darkness. The shining most specifically requires the darkness from which the shining is most specifically visible and most specifically itself rather than the ambient light of the easier time that most specifically reduces the visibility of the individual star’s shining. The staying positive during the hard times is most directly enabled by the reorientation from the darkness-as-only-obstacle to the darkness-as-the-condition-for-the-shining that the strength quote most directly provides from the hard-time position most immediately requiring the reorientation toward the shining the darkness was most specifically enabling from the inside of the dark.
8. Once you choose hope, anything is possible. — Christopher Reeve
This strength quote from Christopher Reeve carries the specific, hope-activating, possibility-opening truth about the relationship between the choosing of the hope and the anything-is-possible that the choosing most specifically and most directly opens from the hard-time position: the hope is a choice. The anything-is-possible follows the choosing of the hope rather than preceding the choosing as the condition of the hope. Once you choose hope, anything is possible. The staying positive during the hard times is most directly enabled by the choosing of the hope from the hard-time position that the anything-is-possible follows from the chosen hope rather than preceding the hope as the condition of the choosing. Choose hope. The anything-is-possible is most specifically and most directly opened from the chosen hope the strength quote most directly enables from the choosing.
9. When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control how you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is. — Unknown
This strength quote closes the list with the one that most directly locates the staying-positive-during-the-hard-times power from the inside of the hard time that most specifically and most honestly acknowledges the inability to control what’s happening from the hard position: the power is not in the controlling of what’s happening. The power is in the controlling of the response to what’s happening. The staying positive during the hard times is the specific exercise of the power that is most specifically available from the hard-time position: the chosen response to the uncontrollable happening. Challenge yourself to control the response. The power is there. The staying positive is the specific, chosen, power-exercising response to the hard time that the strength quote most directly and most specifically locates in the response from the hard-time position where the power was most specifically and most genuinely available from the inside of the responding.
How Amara and Joel Each Found the Strength Quote That Most Directly Helped Them Stay Positive From the Hard Position That the Positivity Was Most Specifically Requiring the Right Words to Sustain
Amara had been in the specific hard-times position most common in the person who is most specifically in the middle of the hard without the specific illumination of the end that the middle was most specifically preventing from being most clearly visible from the inside of the hardest part. The strength quote that most directly helped her stay positive from the hard position was the Victor Hugo one: even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. The naming of the will-end as the most specifically available future certainty from the inside of the darkest that was most specifically preventing the will-end from being most clearly visible most directly and most specifically sustained the staying-positive from the honest-acknowledgment-of-the-darkest position rather than the bypassing-of-the-dark position that the staying-positive was most specifically not requiring: the darkest was acknowledged. The will-end was the sustaining. The sun-will-rise was the most specifically available positive that the staying-positive was most directly sustained by from the honest-acknowledgment of the darkest that the will-end was most specifically following from the Hugo quote’s most direct providing of the will-end-and-sun-will-rise from the inside of the darkest that was most specifically preventing the will-end from being most clearly visible without the Hugo quote’s most direct illumination of the most specifically available positive from the hard-time position’s inside.
Joel’s strength quote was the Christopher Reeve one: once you choose hope, anything is possible. He had been in the specific hard-time position most common in the person whose staying positive was most specifically being prevented by the hope’s unavailability from the waiting-for-the-conditions-to-justify-the-hope position that was most specifically requiring the anything-is-possible before the hope was most specifically chosen rather than the hope before the anything-is-possible that the Reeve quote most directly and most accurately named as the available sequence: the hope is chosen first, and the anything-is-possible follows the chosen hope rather than preceding it as the condition of the choosing. The hope was chosen from the hard-time position. The anything-is-possible followed the chosen hope. The staying positive was sustained from the chosen hope that the strength quote most directly enabled from the choosing that was most specifically available from the hard-time position the Reeve quote was most directly addressing from the once-you-choose-hope position that was most specifically and most directly available from the inside of the hard time the hope was most specifically available to be chosen from.
The Staying Positive During the Hard Times These 9 Strength Quotes Are Most Directly Sustaining Is the Specific, Practiced, Honest Orientation Toward What Is Still Possible, Still Present, and Still Worth the Continuing Toward From the Hard Position the Strength Quotes Are Most Directly Illuminating.
Staying positive during hard times through the strength quotes is built from the specific, honest, hard-times-sustaining truths that these nine quotes most directly illuminate: the darkest-night-will-end that Hugo names, the opportunity-in-the-middle-of-the-difficulty that Einstein names, the every-moment-fresh-beginning that Eliot names, the tough-times-not-lasting that Schuller names, the storms-making-deeper-roots that Parton names, the encountering-the-defeats-without-being-defeated that Angelou names, the stars-shining-from-the-darkness that the quote names, the hope-chosen-opening-the-possible that Reeve names, and the power-in-the-response that the final quote most directly locates from the hard-time position. These nine strength quotes are the honest, compassionate, staying-positive-sustaining companions for the person most specifically in the hard time that the positivity is most directly requiring the right words to sustain from the inside of the hard that these quotes most honestly and most specifically address.
Find the one or two strength quotes from this list that most specifically name what the current hard time most directly needs to hear from the honest inside of the hard position. Write them down. Place them where the hard time is most specifically arriving. Let the right words sustain the positive orientation from the honest acknowledgment of the hard that the strength quotes were most directly addressing from the inside of the hard time the quotes are most specifically and most honestly sustaining you through.
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