Quotes About Hardship

#1. What appeared as unendurable hardship to soldiers of other nationalities produced a species of exhilaration in our lads, raised on a diet of Kipling and institutional porridge. Some

Steven Pressfield

#2. It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

Helen Prejean

#3. The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

Wynton Marsalis

#4. Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.

Huanchu Daoren

#5. It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP.

Leslie T. Chang

#7. One crucial distinction between major depression and chronic depression is that, in the latter, one largely ceases to howl in protest that the world is hard or painful. Rather, one becomes accustomed to it, expecting such hardship and greeting it with, at best, a stoic determination.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#8. When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

Gene Veith

#9. Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

E. M. Forster

#11. Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. 20You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth. 21You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again.

Anonymous

#13. To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Henri Nouwen

#14. Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.

Bodhidharma

#15. Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.

Calvin Coolidge

#16. Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life. Without it, you life will echo emptiness. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during any hardship, love will shine through.

Nikita Koloff

#17. During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

Thomas Frank

#18. Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.

Ellen J. Barrier

#19. It is quite obvious that love is beautiful, but one often does not see the beauty in hardship.

Crystal Mason

#20. You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

Michael Leunig

#21. If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

Natalia Vodianova

#22. Failure and pain and hardship have the meaning we choose to give them.

Eric Greitens

#23. 205. "Endure every difficulty and hardship with a dilated heart, attract spirit and eloquent tongue, in remembrance of the merciful."~

Abdu'l- Baha

#24. I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#25. Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Winston Churchill

#26. Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

Michael Leunig

#27. The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay ... but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

Derek Landy

#28. The word decease literally means "exodus" or "going out." The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.

Billy Graham

#29. just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

Lee Strobel

#30. It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

Solomon Ortiz

#31. The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

Adora Svitak

#32. You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial - but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

Charles Stanley

#33. A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.

Charles R. Ringma

#34. Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.

Margaret Feinberg

#35. Some people can't rest until a wrong is righted or a hardship relieved.

David Mezzapelle

#36. Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

Charles Studd

#37. It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

Agona Apell

#38. An unwillingness to endure the hardship of a depressed time keeps us from the possibility of capturing the wisdom and strength and joy that can exist on the other side. There is a season to be sad. Painful things hurt. Allow yourself to be hurt.

Eric Greitens

#39. ...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him...

Don DeLillo

#40. There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

Errollyn Wallen

#41. Pause and remember - You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!

Jennifer Young

#42. This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]

Miles Franklin

#43. In essence he declared, "If I have to choose between Your presence and Your blessing, I'll take Your presence - even if it's in a place of lack and hardship - over Your blessing in a great environment.

John Bevere

#44. Sir Thomas saw repeated, and for ever repeated reason to rejoice in what he had done for them all, and acknowledge the advantages of early hardship and discipline, and the consciousness of being born to struggle and endure.

Jane Austen

#45. Let hardship sharpen your blade.

Rainbow Rowell

#46. face a little hardship rather than years of regretting.

Peter Gray

#47. Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense

Mignon McLaughlin

#48. I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.

Woodrow Wilson

#49. Asha grasped many of her own contradictions, among them that you could be proud of having spared your offspring hardship while also resenting them for having been spared.

Katherine Boo

#50. During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.

Bohdi Sanders

#51. The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,

Mohammad Khatami

#52. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.

Calvin W. Allison

#53. it's the mark of a man how he handles hardship, not what he does for a living.

Jillian Hart

#54. In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come.

Barack Obama

#55. The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

Billy Graham

#56. When hardship is a constant companion, joy is a welcome guest.

Sarah Fine

#57. Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

Dan B. Allender

#58. To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

Elliott Merrick

#59. Honestly, I think there's a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives.

Sarah J. Maas

#60. I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Dean Karnazes

#61. It was as if hardship bred indifference.

Anthony Ryan

#62. She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night.

Colson Whitehead

#63. For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

#64. Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do,

Leland Ryken

#65. What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

Walter Munk

#66. In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

Immortal Technique

#67. One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

Haile Selassie

#68. Relish the hardship.

Jon Krakauer

#69. Through hardship to the stars

Ruta Sepetys

#70. Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

Jo Baer

#71. But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.

Epictetus

#72. You can endure every hardship with hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. Fear is the negative emotion that brings every traceable hardship into our life. Only Love can free us from fear.

Donald L. Hicks

#74. I point to the volcanic rock that forms the base of the forest floor, and say that if the trees can grow on such a hard, unforgiving surface, then a new life can be built on the foundation of any hardship.

Sarah Lotz

#75. Hardship is the best ship to board

Jagdish Bali

#76. I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

George Eliot

#77. I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely

Henry David Thoreau

#78. Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Wim Wenders

#79. Adversity and hardship are the building stones of character. How can you appreciate good times and savor happiness if you have never dealt with ill fortune, discomfort and sorrow. It's like a child learning the difference between hot and cold. RW

Rob Wood

#80. The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men

Basil Johnston

#81. They were a proud people, cheerful in the face of hardship, strong in the depths of captivity, and ruthless in their pursuit of freedom.

Dan Wells

#82. My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.

Adoniram Judson

#83. We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship.

Russell Eric Dobda

#84. Hang on to hope in any hardship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#85. As fire tempers steel, so hardship can temper the human soul.

Raja Arasa Ratnam

#86. He brings eventual well-being for those who turn to Him, regardless of any hardship He may allow, but eventual calamity for those who reject Him, regardless of how well their immediate life may be going.

James MacDonald

#87. Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

Nachman Of Breslov

#88. Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Jim Harrison

#89. A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#90. There is no shame is asking for help. We accept the fact that those at the end of life and those at the beginning of life require assistance, yet we somehow believe that adults should be able to be independent in spite of hardship.

Lisa Arends

#91. On the other side of every hardship is a resurrection.

Lysa TerKeurst

#92. Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

Judith Orloff

#93. I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.

Julie Anne Long

#94. I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#95. I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#96. Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Vivek Wadhwa

#97. Maybe your definition of hardship is different than mine, but it makes mine no less real.

Mysti Parker

#98. Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

David Byrne

#99. Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience.

Eric Greitens

#100. In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

Xi Jinping