No matter what, you have to hang in there. The greater the difficulties, the greater the reward. Don’t give up!
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there. ~Author Unknown
In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. ~Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. ~Jerome Fleishman
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey
If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa
We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie 
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham
Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind
God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~Winston Churchill
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. ~Bernard M. Baruch
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ~Cicero
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. ~Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, “Rock Bottom”
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown
But ne’er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey
Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force… never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~Winston Churchill
You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug. ~Author Unknown