140 Powerful Quotes That Hit Hard Strong Sayings About Life and Love – Tiny Inspire (2024)

Powerful Quotes That Hit Hard:In need of inspiration? We’ve compiled the 140 most famous quotes of all time to motivate you in your work and personal life. If you want to change your life, your destiny, or whatever, you have to do something different than what you’re doing now. “Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You’ll never get any thanks for hitting soft.” Theodore Roosevelt.

Words of wisdom from the world’s wisest thinkers are timeless, though the world continues to change every day.

When you’re going through a tough time in your life, you might find it helpful to read a quote about life that really hits home because it rings so true. And yes, your state of mind does shift!

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Quotes That Hit Hard

1. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

2. “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – William Faulkner

3. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ― Benjamin Franklin

4. “You can’t put arms around a memory.” – Guns N’ Roses

5. “Just because you miss someone doesn’t mean you should be with them.”

6. “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow

7. “I am too insane to explain and you are too normal to understand.”

8. “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis

9. “If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.”

10. “Often a good heart doesn’t see a bad heart coming. Forgive yourself for the harm someone’s done you.” ― Karen Salmansohn

11. “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone to feel like that.” – Robin Williams

12. “We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”

13. “Everything will work out in the end, You don’t need to know how, you just have to trust that it will. Never let a bad situation bring out the worst in you. Be strong and choose to be positive.” – Anonymous

14. “The best way to find the truth is to go very far in what you do.” – Anonymous

15. “I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

16. “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” ― Benjamin Franklin

17. “When you lose someone who is your entire universe, it hits you—all chances you didn’t take, all the things you didn’t say. Because the truth is that you think you have forever, but you don’t. You never do.” – Anonymous

18. “Do not waste time thinking about what you could have done differently. Keep your eyes on the road ahead… and do it differently now.” – Karen Salmansohn

19. “It’s very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them.” ― Karen Salmansohn

20. “I believe that life’s challenges are here to knock us out of our brain grooves – get us to switch over to another brain groove track – where we can finally experience new ways of seeing and being in the world. Without hitting bumps in the road, it’s very tough to get, out of our repeated cycles of thinking and behaving.” – Karen Salmansohn

21. “Don’t focus on who let you down. Appreciate who lifted you up. Don’t focus who darkened your days. Appreciate who brightened them.” – Karen Salmansohn

22. “It ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” ― Rocky Balboa

23. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment; and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

24. “When you are feeling peaceful you are in your ultimate power.” – Karen Salmansohn

25. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

26. “Bad things happen to us to teach us how to look at good things in a whole new light.”

27. “I won’t lie, it doesn’t get easier. Not if you’re doing it right.”

28. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

29. “You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you.” – Nigerian Proverb

30. “I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.” – Anonymous

31. “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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain

32. “Memories have to be our most painful blessing.” – Kanye West

33. “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.” – Rocky Balboa

34. “Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.” – Anonymous

35. “Don’t depend too much on anyone. Even your shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” – Anonymous

36. “Hit Hard, Hit Fast, Hit Often!” – Halsey

37. “What is coming is better than what’s gone. Let this belief aim you in the direction you need to go.” – Karen Salmansohn

38. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi

39. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain

40. “How do you spell ‘love?’ You don’t spell it, you feel it.” – Winnie The Pooh

41. “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.” – Victor Hugo

42. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― Haruki Murakami

43. “Silence your inner saboteur.”

44. “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” ― Benjamin Franklin

45. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” – Anonymous

46. “Please don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky, when the stars are strung across the velvety night, and when shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day, make a wish. Think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.” – Robin Williams

47. “Psychology says, ‘Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow.’” – Hey Fran Hey

48. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ― Benjamin Franklin

49. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

50. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

51. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd

52. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde

53. “Most people never find the good one, because they never let go of the wrong one.” – Anonymous

54. “She was proof that broken things can still be beautiful.” – R.H. Sin

55. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh

56. “Hate takes pieces of your heart. Love creates peace in your heart.”

57. “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. You’re curious, and smart, and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you’re waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.” – Randall Munroe

58. “Sometimes, you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Theodor Seuss Geisel

59. “You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.” – Anonymous

60. “Some people love to walk in rain, not to enjoy, but because no one sees their tears.” – Anonymous

61. “Being negative is like spraying yourself with anti-charisma.” – Karen Salmansohn

62. “Dreams only come true if you wake up and chase them.” – Alex Toussaint

63. “Yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

64. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde

65. “Be where your feet are.” – Tom Coughlin

66. “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami

67. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

68. “Always stay teachable (open-minded & open-hearted) no matter how much you think you know.” ― Karen Salmansohn

69. “Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.” – Anonymous

70. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

71. “You gotta learn how to stop telling people more than they need to know.” – Anonymous

72. “What is coming is better than what’s gone. Let this belief aim you in the direction you need to go.” ― Karen Salmansohn

73. “I hate myself for being oversensitive. I wasn’t this way before. Now, even just little things can trigger my anxiety and other emotions, then boom! I’m out of mind again.”

74. “You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.” ― Rocky Balboa

75. “You can’t put arms around a memory.” – Guns N Roses

76. “Love had hit me hard that I fainted.” – Fahi

77. “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again—fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow

78. “Maybe one day I will be important to everyone like they are to me, that would be nice… because I’m getting so lonely and I feel invisible. I’m trying so hard to stay positive. Please care.”

79. “Many times life will hit you hard, knock you down, and hurt you. Persevere, Never give up, and do your best to get up and Keep Going.” – John Cena

80. “Do you ever feel like a single person you care about cares about someone else more.”

81. “Fall in love with someone who doesn’t make you feel love is hard.”

82. “Everything will workout in the end, you don’t need to know how, you just have to trust that it will, never let a bad situation bring out the worst in you, be strong and choose to be positive.”

83. “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” ― Benjamin Franklin

84. “It can only break you if you let it.”

85. “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. You’re curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you’re waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.” – Randall Munroe

86. “Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”

87. “Being happy isn’t about what you have. It’s about the thoughts you have.”

88. “Some things take time. Stay positive. Be patient. Don’t settle. Things will get better. Wait for what you deserve.” – Karen Salmansohn

89. “If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lose.” – Krishna

90. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” – Rumi

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

92. “The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” Gustave Flaubert

93. . “It can only break you if you let it.” – Anonymous

94. “We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.” – Colleen Hoover

95. “Never miss out on a good person that can make your life great just because they’re difficult. The good ones never come easy.” – Sizzle

96. “If karma doesn’t hit you, I will.”

97. “The universe rewards the decisive.” – Karen Salmansohn

98. “I can’t find a man I want, and I’m beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I’m holding out for something that doesn’t even exist.” She’d voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she’d done in the past few months, she’d not once been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn’t had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn’t sure she’d ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book.” – Karen Marie Moning

99. “What brings us to tears will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.” – Bob Goff

100. “Never bother thinking about going back and changing the beginning. Start from now and try changing the ending.” – Anonymous

101. “My mom said “love doesn’t hurt you, a person that doesn’t know how to love does” and that hit me.”

102. “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” ― Benjamin Franklin

103. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

104. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” – Muhammad Ali

105. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

106. “Never hit you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You’ll never get any thanks for hitting soft.” – Theodore Roosevelt

107. “Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”

108. “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” ― Haruki Murakami

109. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” – Muhammad Ali

110. “It’s hard to trust when all you have from the past is evidence why you shouldn’t.”

111. “It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” – George Eliot

112. “It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.” – David Jones

113. “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?” – Anonymous

114. “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 safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

115. “A person that truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how hard the situation is.”

116. “Life hits hard… but my mom taught me how to hit harder.”

117. “Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.” – Gabriel Garcia

118. “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ― Benjamin Franklin

119. “The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair, you feel rise in you a challenge to life and the promise of future accomplishments.” – Gustave Flaubert

120. “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize there are more important things than what people do all day.” – Bill Watterson

121. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

122. “In the end we won’t remember the most beautiful face and body. We’ll remember the most beautiful heart and soul.”

123. “We’re all healing from something. Please be gentle with others. You never know if you’re hitting a wound.”

124. “People change for two main reasons. Their minds have open or their hearts are broken.”

125. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” – Benjamin Franklin

126. “You don’t need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.”

127. “What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” – Erin Hanson

128. “If you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.” – Rocky Balboa

129. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

130. “He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.” – Albert Einstein

131. “So we ignore each other, and pretend the other doesn’t exist but deep down, we both know it wasn’t supposed to end like this.”

132. “Karma is gonna hit some of y’all real hard for breaking people who had nothing but good intentions for you.”

133. “The path to a dream is rarely linear. You gotta zig-zag your way to happiness.” ― Karen Salmansohn

134. “Be nice to people even if your own heart is breaking, because there’s no need to break theirs too.” – Shubh Narwan

135. “Whenever I say I hate something people feel the need to respond with “hate is a strong word.” Yeah? Well so is love and people just throw that word around like it’s nothing.”

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